Teacher pay

DfE: 2.8% teacher pay rise ‘would be appropriate’ for 2025-26

Schools told they will need to find 'efficiencies' to 'supplement' extra cash allocated at the budget

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Teacher pay

More ‘above-inflation’ pay rises needed, say unions

Pay recommendations must not be constrained by 'existing inadequate funding levels', say leaders

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Teacher pay

Phillipson asks STRB for 2025 pay recommendation ‘at the earliest point’

Education secretary also calls for a recommendation on whether greater flexibility is needed for TLR payments

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Teacher pay

STRB backs careful move to targeting pay by subject

If 'done well' targeting pay by subject might be 'a useful approach' to address shortage subject recruitment in a...

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
Teacher pay

What is happening with teacher pay?

Chancellor says announcements will come 'later this month' and government will 'make sure that the sums add up'

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Teacher pay

United Learning’s alternative pension plan: The lawyers’ views

Pension proposals by the country's biggest trust have led to questions over its legality, whether the TPS might collapse...

John Dickens
John Dickens
Teacher pay

1 in 4 young teachers would swap generous pension for more pay

More than a quarter of teachers in their 20s would sacrifice a better pension to boost their take-home pay...

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey
Teacher pay

Alternative pension plan is a teacher pay shortcut, not solution

Trust's proposal to offer staff a less generous pension for more pay will leave staff 'dangerously shortchanged', says Paul...

John Dickens
Paul Whiteman
Teacher pay

United Learning to offer alternative pension and boost starter salaries to £45k

But unions slam 'alarming' and 'dangerous' move - saying they could strike

Lucas Cumiskey
Lucas Cumiskey