Weekly round-up: Pay offer and a new route into teaching

Your round-up of Tes’ essential news and analysis from the past week includes the government’s recommendation for teacher pay next year, an attempt to halt next week’s strikes and a new teaching apprenticeship for non-graduates
23rd February 2023, 4:23pm

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Weekly round-up: Pay offer and a new route into teaching

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With three consecutive days of teacher strikes looming, the government’s announcement of its recommended pay increase for next year did little to quell the flames this week.

The recommended salary increase of 3 per cent for experienced teachers in 2023-24 was branded a “real-terms pay cut” by teaching unions, ahead of regional strikes over this year’s pay scheduled by the NEU for Tuesday to Thursday next week.

Earlier this week, the education secretary invited unions to “move into formal talks on pay, conditions and reform” - on the condition that next week’s strikes are called off. In response, the NEU said it would be prepared to pause strike action if a “serious” pay offer was made.

Meanwhile, a government plan to introduce a teaching apprenticeship for people without a degree sparked heated debate; and a Tes investigation uncovered what the biggest multi-academy trusts have been paying their top earners.

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