Professional Documents
Culture Documents
06/
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A CHARITABLE
GESTURE OR
PATRONISING?
Alan Johnson’s “great
idea” to send excellent SUPPORT NURSES,
teachers from private
schools into state
MIDWIVES, AND OTHER
schools has received PUBLIC SECTOR WORKERS WHO ARE HAVING
lukewarm support. Do THEIR PAY UNFAIRLY
we really believe that SUPPRESSED
the best teachers work
in schools that have the “You can’t value public servants
best academic results? if you cut their pay”
INFLATION 4.8%
Teachers’ pay rise?
2½%
Work it out—a 2.3% pay cut
IS THIS YOU?
A teacher on UPS3 will lose about £3000 over the
next three years if we do nothing. This same “Your
teacher has already lost £1236 in the last 3 years. standard
The purchasing power of a new teacher’s salary
of living
has been cut by £724 in the same period. must fall”
A QUALIFIED TEACHER IN EVERY
CLASS—Baroness Fookes visits
Courtlands School with Division
Secretary David Smale to award the
first Plymouth NUT Kite Mark—see P4