Pay rise for teachers ‘would boost social mobility’
Share
Pay rise for teachers ‘would boost social mobility’
https://www.tes.com/magazine/archive/pay-rise-teachers-would-boost-social-mobility
Starting salaries for teachers should be put on a par with other graduate professions, a new government commissioned report into social mobility has reccommended.
Good staff should also be enticed into challenging schools with incentives such as a teachers’ Help to Buy scheme, according to the third “state of the nation” report from the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission.
The report, overseen by social-mobility tsar Alan Milburn, also recommends a new “zero tolerance” approach to schools that consistently fail to offer a good education, forcing them to become part of an academy chain and change their leadership.
There are around 30 schools which have failed to achieve the government floor standards for GCSE results five years in a row, the commission said.
Commission chair Alan Milburn said: “I’m fed up with state schools in disadvantaged areas letting down the poorest pupils and the poorest families.”
“I don’t believe that life should rely on luck,” he added. “It’s a certainty that where you get in life depends, in great part, on the type of education you get.”
The report’s key recommendations and goals include:
You've reached your limit of free articles this month. Subscribe for £1 per month for three months and get: