Category: 'teacher'

Starting salaries for teachers could rise by up to £6,000 under government plans to reform pay. The proposal would mean that a new teacher would earn a minimum of £30,000 from 2022/23, a significant increase from the current minimum in England and Wales (excluding London), which is £23,720.

Teachers are to be offered cash incentives to stick with the profession as part of the government’s strategy to increase the number of people working in the sector.

A school teacher working in an indigenous community in the remote Canadian Arctic has been awarded a US $1million (£803,000) global teaching prize for her work helping to reduce teenage suicide rates.

One of the main concerns surrounding the education sector in the UK at present is severe teacher shortages. The shortage is being caused by problems in recruiting new teachers and retaining existing ones.