I believe I work just as hard and as long as most schoolteachers and that I’m just as skilled a practitioner, so should I strike for pay parity?

I was struck by an oddly elegiac piece I read about FE is the 1960s and 70s. By all accounts it sounded like a typically British affair, described by the author as “a leisure thing, less restart than recharge”. Fortunately, that has changed and lecturers like yourself are skilled facilitators working under pressure in a concerted attempt to bring bespoke education to a nation of underachievers. If anyone deserves a rise you do? Events at Southampton City College serve as a warning to those who demand too much without reward.

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