Percentage point

14th March 2003, 12:00am
Is there a rationale to explain: teachers’ pay rise 2.9 per cent; council tax increase 8-40 per cent; employer pension contributions up by almost 5 per cent; teachers’ pension increase 1.7 per cent? (Source National Association of Headteachers’ website).

Tim Hogg

Lympne primary school, Kent