ASK any higher education college which category of students - PGCE or BEd - are more dedicated in their approach to teaching, and more likely to remain in teaching, and I am sure BEds would win in every institution throughout the UK.
I am appalled that the Government is not offering this wonderful salary, which I am sure will help the education recruitment shortage, to students in their fourth year of their BEd or equivalent.
On a different tack, as a deputy head in a mall school I am concerned that I may be advising or assessing threshold teachers who will be on a greater salary than myself.
Has the Government not thought through the fact that there is now going to be a shortage of deputy heads? Who would be a teaching deputy, when you can earn more as a post-threshold teacher? Please ministers, consider differentials!
Sylvia Howieson
Deputy headteacher
All Saints CofE primary school
Fulham
London SW6