Teachers
in regions may be paid less
The National Union of teachers and the National
Association of Schoolmasters/The Union of women teachers announced a strike
when Mr. Gove, education secretary, will scrap the national pay rates of
teachers. There are plans to lower the pay rates for teachers in parts of the
Uk when there is a low vacancy rate. When there is a high offer of vacancies
and a low offer of teachers, the salary is high, but when it is the other way
around, Mr. Gove wants to reduce the salary or to freeze the raise of the
salaries. The plan is to introduce regional pay. This means that there will be
attractive salaries in regions where teachers are hard to find. The problem is,
that in regions where there are a lot of teachers available the teachers earn
far less. This would not be fair according The National Union of teachers and
the National Association of Schoolmasters/The Union of women teachers.
Opinion
As a future-teachers
I don’t agree with this of course. I think it is unfair. Teachers choose their profession
because they want to help the future of the next generation. Sometimes it is
hard for teachers to get a job, but I don’t think it is fair for the teachers
who can find a job easily to get their salary reduced. I think this arrangement
is just crappy. I think some teachers even are going to move to an area where
the pays are higher. And what will happen when there are enough teachers in the
area where there are now high vacancy rates? Will the salary diminish there
when the schools have enough, when the vacancy rates are low enough? I think
there just should be a national agreement on salaries for teachers, and the
vacancy rates should be taken care of by another arrangement.
