The Guardian view on teachers’ pay: colleges don’t deserve second-class status | Editorial
R.Not everyone should be in the sixth style colleges in England Missing 5.5 % in wages It was granted to their colleagues in the government school sector. That up to 4000 of them will do so, unless the government agrees to finance a background increase, due to the chaotic patch from 16 to 18-with some sixth models that operate as academies and other colleges. It is a great thing that ministers ignore the shameful injustice of the height of some teachers, but not everything.
Unless they change the path and increase the offer in December, when they were threatened with a judicial review, the result will be More strikes By the National Education Union (NEU) – and more lost learning for adolescents. The situation is made more related to the focus of the child’s well -being bill to ensure a level stadium between schools in England – with academies Relative to follow the national curriculum And pay the scales that have been exempt so far. There is no good reason for the existence of the sixth colleges of the sixth model of this broader project, as its employees have denied the increase granted to other teachers.
During the reign of Gillian Kejan, Bridge Filipuson’s predecessor as an education secretary, colleges were funded to grant their salaries equally with schools. Given that colleges educate a large number of children between the ages of 16 and 18 years of richer homes, and offer a broader set of qualifications from many schools (including GCSE), is surprising that exhaustion The government is now dealing with them less positive than conservatives by refusing to spend additional 13 million pounds.
This conflict is important because the creation of a second -class university workforce declined. But the position of the ministers also raises wider questions. Schools are always the lion’s share of the attention of the Minister of Education. Partially thanks for the catastrophic options made by the conservatives, Mrs. Philipson inherited a very difficult set of challenges. This crisis includes providing special educational needs and multiplication effects The child’s poverty exacerbated. But as Philip AjarAnd, which was assigned to review education after 18 by the Teresa May, argued in 2019, that England usually has a terrible habit of neglecting teenagers who are not heading to very selective universities. This temporary lack of interest in education and majority prospects is one of the reasons for the UK record of poor productivity and high equality.
The danger is that the work is now in the same style. the Revrieve granted for the sixth models Regarding the proposed disposal of applied general qualifications (including BTECs), it was a relief in December. Likewise, the late recognition by the Minister of Skills, Jackie Smith, did those levels It did not succeed As is planned. The rules are changed after the promise is proven from the locations of the industry for 45 days.
But despite these concessions, a generous time schedule, conservative policy Replace other applied qualifications With T levels still in place. In conjunction with official stubbornness regarding the curricula, the decision on wages sends a disturbing message about the priorities. It remains to see what the MS Phillipson curriculum is recommended in terms of sixth style studies. But you should not need experts to tell her that expanding the gap between teachers ’salaries and the conditions of teachers in schools, and teachers in colleges, is a very very bad idea.
