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Wales teachers' wages: Devolution 'only way' to save national rates in face of Gove onslaught
Teachers' union Ucac president calls for national wage-setting powers to fall to Cardiff as Gove plans to let headteachers set pay
Divisive plans to transfer responsibility for teachers’ wages to Wales are the only way to save national rates, Welsh education union Ucac president Ioan Jones insisted yesterday.
Mr Jones said the move would scupper Tory Education Secretary Michael Gove’s dangerous plans to let individual headteachers set pay.
The transfer proposed by the Silk commission on devolution is opposed by the NUT and Nasuwt teaching unions, which say the weak Welsh economy would drag down pay.
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