State of education 2022
This year's results from the State of Education survey
Teachers’ Pay Campaign
The members of the Northern Ireland Teachers’ Council (NITC), the representative body for the teachers’ unions, have agreed to act jointly to make finding an acceptable resolution to the question of teachers’ pay an election issue.
Performance Review and Staff Development Suspended
Performance review and staff development (PRSD) has been suspended for rest of the academic year.
Pay survey 2022
Our pay survey for all teacher members in state funded schools in England has now closed. Thank you to all who took part.
Pay calculator
The NEU pay calculator sets out school teacher pay rates for 2021-22 following the Government's decision to freeze teacher pay in England and the pay increase implemented in Wales.
hourly pay test
The NEU pay calculator sets out school teacher pay rates for 2021-22 following the Government's decision to freeze teacher pay in England and the pay increase implemented in Wales.
Teachers’ Incremental Pay Progression 2021/22
The Department of Education, Northern Ireland (DENI) have now confirmed that temporary cover has been approved to allow the payment of incremental progression increases to eligible teachers from September 2021.
Northern Ireland Teachers Pay increase 2019/20 & 2020/21
Subject to receipt of final approval of the pay remit by the Department of Finance, it is anticipated that the pay award will be implemented in the May/June payrolls.
No Teacher Performance Review and Staff Development for 2020/2021
The NI Teacher Performance Review and Staff Development (PRSD) process will be paused for 2021/2021 academic year.
Winning at work on pay – Robert’s story
Robert Poole, NEU Secondary rep, Greater Manchester, talks about how he became an NEU Rep, and achieved a successful pay campaign at his workplace.
Independent sector pay & conditions survey
NEU survey of independent school staff finds falling living standards and high workload
Coronavirus: PRP objectives
Ensure performance related pay objectives are reasonable in the current circumstances
Winning at work on pay: Jodie’s story
Coventry rep Jodie Mallier describes her successful pay campaign.
Pay implementation
The NEU is campaigning for a national pay increase and to ensure employers are using the national pay scales.
Pay scales
Teacher pay scales in England and Wales.
Supply worker employment and the COVID-19 crisis: NEU survey report 2020
This NEU survey of supply worker members on employment during the COVID-19 crisis opened on 24 April, receiving 1,966 responses. Most responses were received by 28 April, although responses continued to arrive until 14 May.
Pay progression
The NEU is campaigning for pay progression for all eligible members.
Collective bargaining in the independent sector
How to negotiate on pay in the independent sector, with some relevance to Further Education workplaces or academies where there is collective bargaining.
Pay campaign
The NEU is campaigning for a pay increase of at least 9% for teachers and fair pay for all educators including support staff. Pay is a crucial part of our campaign to Value Education, Value Educators.
Pay toolkit
Use our pay toolkit to secure pay progression, by taking collective action or by pursuing and winning appeals against decisions that individual teachers should not progress.
Pay advice
Advice on pay scales, pay progression and how to secure fair pay in your workplace.
Advice
What if the employer says no?
Advice and guidance for next steps you can take around pay progression decisions in your workplace.
Guide to collecting pay progression data
Using equality data in tackling pay progression
The teachers' pay structure
This Q&A document is a comprehensive overview to the teachers’ pay structure and classroom teachers’ pay scales for 2021-22.
Pay equality FAQs
FAQs on pay scale, allowances for additional responsibilities and pay progression to help understand how teacher pay works.
Covid-19 absences & impact on pay
This guidance applies to all staff - including substitute teachers and temporary non-teaching staff in response to absences because of Covid-19.
Soulbury officers
Information on pay and conditions for Soulbury paid officers in England and Wales.
Pay progression – bargaining for equality
A guide for reps on equality in schools, including a checklist to ensure that all eligible members receive pay progression.
Coronavirus: teacher pay and appraisal in England
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic means that performance-related pay (PRP) is completely unworkable and should be discontinued.
Threshold progression and the upper pay range
The Upper Pay Range is a pay range offering significantly higher pay than the main pay range. This advice helps explain progression to the Upper Pay Range.
Pay progression for teachers
This advice summarises how performance related pay progression works for teachers.
Pay safeguarding for teachers
Pay safeguarding applies when your employer determines your pay should be reduced. It allows a period of time for you to adjust to the lower pay.
Residential teachers
Pay and conditions for teachers in residential establishments are aligned with those in the School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document (STPCD), the Burgundy Book and the Independent Pay Review Body in Wales.
Pay framework for teachers in sixth form colleges
Guidance on the pay framework for sixth form college teachers and advice for NEU representatives for college level discussions on its implementation.
Collective bargaining starter for ten
Ten bullet points on independent sector collective bagaining.
Pay scales in academies and trusts
Details of how academies and trusts set pay scales and what pay and conditions arrangements are in place in these workplaces.
Part time teachers’ pay and conditions
An introduction to the pay and conditions arrangements of part time teachers.
Pay appeals
Advice on identifying the grounds for a pay appeal and on how you might run a successful one.
Pay for leadership teachers
The most common queries NEU members have on pay for leadership teachers in schools and academies.
Teaching in independent schools
Guidance on matters to consider in relation to pay and conditions when working in the independent sector.
TLR payments and other allowances
Advice on Teaching & Learning Responsibility Payments (TLRs) and other allowances such as Special Educational Needs allowances and Recruitment and Retention payments.
Unattached teachers
This guidance summarises the position in respect of pay and conditions for unattached teachers employed by local authorities and there are separate STPCDs for England and Wales.
Starting pay on appointment
This guidance is aimed at new teachers and those returning to teaching service after a break. It explains the basics of the pay structure and gives advice on ensuring you are fairly paid and able to seek the most favourable use of pay discretions.
School pay policies
All schools, including academies, should have a pay policy which sets out how decisions are taken on pay matters including pay assessments, pay progression, discretionary payments, appeals etc.
Out of school hours activities
guidance on the pay and conditions implications of teachers’ participation in out-of-school-hours learning activities.
Equal pay and The Equal Pay Act 1970
The campaign for equal pay has a long history; one which is still ongoing.
Support staff pay and conditions
Pay and conditions agreement for support staff - most LA schools use the local government pay scales to pay their support staff in conjunction with National Joint Council (NJC) terms and conditions.
Redundancy pay and entitlements
Advice explaining the payments and entitlements you may receive if your post becomes redundant. In any case where redundancy is threatened, specific advice and assistance is available and should be sought from your school/college rep or division/association/branch secretary.
Pay in the independent sector
As private businesses outside the national collective bargaining structure in the maintained sector, independent schools have greater freedom to set their own terms and conditions of employment.
Pay policy checklist
School teacher checklist for England to be used alongside the National Education Union model policy to help you negotiate a policy acceptable to the NEU.
Pay policy checklist Wales
School teacher checklist for Wales to be used alongside the National Education Union model policy to help you negotiate a policy acceptable to the NEU.
Pay model policy
This model pay policy will help to recruit, retain and motivate teachers, provide the basis for sound financial and personnel planning and minimise the risk of grievance and discrimination.
Pay appeals - checklist
This checklist will help you prepare for meetings about recommendations to deny pay progression and appeals hearings after a decision has been taken to deny pay progression.
Pay appeals - model letters
Model letters for meetings about recommendations and appeals hearings around denial of pay progression.
Winning pay appeals
This guide gives advice on securing pay progression by persuading governors not to accept a recommendation to deny pay progression or by appealing successfully against a decision to deny progression.
Understanding pay progression
This guide gives advice on how the pay progression system for classroom teachers works.
Notice periods
This guidance sets out the obligations of employers and employees in relation to notice periods and notice pay.
Winning an acceptable pay policy
This guide explains how to challenge unfair pay policies and secure a fair pay policy in your school.
Press release
Latest inflation figure
RPI inflation hit 11% in April, its highest in over 40 years.
Value Education, Value Educators
Comment on the passing of Motion 47 at the Annual Conference of the National Education Union
Pay claim
Comment on the passing of Motion 14 at the Annual Conference of the National Education Union
Independent school staff face burgeoning workloads and shrinking pay packets
In the latest survey of 1,200 NEU members working as teachers and support staff in independent schools, there is a clear trend in falling living standards. And as pay stagnates, workload remains high.
Pay
Comment on the passing of Motion 10 at the Annual Conference of the National Education Union
Teachers’ unions come together to launch a pay campaign
With inflation running at 6.2% and projected by the Bank of England to rise to over 8% in the time ahead teachers are right to have rejected the pay offer made to them.
Spring Statement
The Chancellor has missed an opportunity to protect our children’s futures in his Spring Statement.
IFS on the Spring Statement
The IFS research and the worsening inflation outlook reinforce the NEU's call for the restoration of the pay losses imposed on teachers and other educators since 2010.
Government evidence to School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB)
Imposing lower increases for more experienced teachers and headteachers is deeply unfair, will damage morale and will actually increase the retention problems already facing the profession.
Joint union statement to STRB
Education unions call on the Government to repair damage to teacher and school leader pay
Education unions call on the Government to repair damage to teacher and school leader pay
Education unions are calling on the Government to avoid further pay cuts and urgently repair the damage that has already been done.
NEU teacher's pay consultation outcome
Message from the NEU Northern Ireland Regional Secretary
Government’s Pay Remit Letter to STRB
The Government can afford to pay teachers properly and the country can't afford it not to.
Unions Slam College Employers over 1% Pay Offer
College staff are key in ensuring future generations have the skills they need for their own careers and the greater economic good, and shouldn’t be on poverty pay.
Treasury Evidence to Pay Review Bodies
The NEU thinks that this country cannot afford to even further erode the value of teachers’ pay - otherwise we will continue to fail to recruit and lose experienced teachers.
Teacher Training Census
Successive Conservative governments have fallen short of their own teacher training targets year on year. 2021 is no different.
Spending Review
Today, the Chancellor Rishi Sunak had a historic opportunity to value education and value educators. Despite his rhetoric he has failed.
Public Sector Pay
The Chancellor must make good on this latest pledge to drive up pay for the public sector.
Education unions respond jointly to STRB
Education unions respond have jointly to School Teachers' Review Body (STRB), criticising pay freeze imposed by Government. Teachers and school leaders have made an immense contribution to the country's pandemic response.
Education unions react to publication of STRB report on pay
Teachers and school leaders are united in their opposition to the Government's pay freeze.
Teacher pay freeze
All education staff deserve a significant pay increase, not another real-terms pay cut.
EPI on Teacher Pay and Retention
The EPI report rightly highlights the severe teacher recruitment and retention problems, and the significant gaps between teacher pay and the pay of other graduate professions.
Pay Freeze
The Government's ideologically-driven pay freeze is both unjustified and unfair.
Teacher labour market
The NFER is right to note that any improvement in teacher supply due to the pandemic will be short-lived.
NAO on Public Service Pensions
The NEU broadly welcomes the NAO report on public service pensions, which largely endorses the NEU’s arguments down the years.
Education unions unite to reject Government pay freeze
Organisations representing the overwhelming majority of teachers and school leaders in England have united in opposing the Government’s pay freeze.
Keir Starmer Speech
Keir Starmer is right to call out the Government on key worker pay. A pay freeze is no way to reward education staff for the immense contribution they have made to the country's response to the pandemic.
Education unions condemn STRB restriction
Three education unions condemn Gavin Williamson for restricting the STRB
Joint unions express outrage at pay offer
Trade unions representing staff in English further education colleges have today (Thursday) slammed the decision by the Association of Colleges (AoC) to offer a 1% pay increase and demanded to know what additional Government funding had been spent on.
Spending Review 2020
Pay freeze is a body blow to education workers
Public Sector Pay
The Government will argue this is about holding down public sector pay because private sector pay has gone down, but it makes no sense economically.
Government pay proposals divisive
Government pay proposals for teachers and school leaders in England are “divisive and inadequate”, says joint union statement
Northern Ireland teachers’ council accepts teachers' pay offer
Today, the Northern Ireland Teachers’ Council (NITC) – the body which makes up the Teachers’ Side of the Teachers’ Negotiating Committee has announced that it will be accepting the terms of the Pay and Workload Agreement presented to them on 8 April 2020.
Proposed teachers' pay award
NEU Cymru's evidence to the Independent Welsh Pay Review Body (IWPRB) asked for a 7% pay award for all teachers, and sadly this does not fully do that. We will continue to argue for this.
Public Sector Pay
The NEU asked for a 7% pay rise for all teachers. This increase does not achieve this entirely reasonable ambition.
NEU welcomes improvements to teacher workload and pay
The National Education Union (NEU) has welcomed action by the Northern Education Trust (NET) academy chain to improve teacher workload and pay.
Pay survey results 2020
Teacher pay survey shows that 63% of teachers have considered leaving the profession due to pay concerns.
Unions criticise government’s pay proposals
Four education unions are warning that government pay proposals would short-change most classroom teachers and all senior leaders.
Department for Education proposals for teacher pay
The Government’s approach will create new problems. All teachers deserve a pay increase that will make a significant start in restoring the real terms cuts to their pay since 2010.
STRB submission 2020
Teacher Pay – NEU evidence to the School Teachers' Review Body (STRB) calls for 7% increase for all teachers in England.
Education Unions write to Gavin Williamson about teacher pay
A letter calling on Gavin Williamson, the new Secretary of State to increase teachers pay written in agreement by NEU, ASCL, NAHT and Voice, representing the majority of teachers in England.
Teacher pay – schools expected to fund pay Increase from stretched budgets
Department for Education’s response to the STRB report on teacher pay.
Teacher Pay
2.75% pay increase for teachers predicted for next Monday.
Teacher workforce and class sizes
The latest data on the school workforce in England will give teachers and parents further cause for concern.
Cash incentives for maths and physics teachers
Kevin Courtney, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, comments on the announcement of £2,000 incentive payments in addition to existing bursaries for maths and physics teachers.
Unions urge review body to ignore government’s suggested pay cap for teachers
Organisations representing the overwhelming majority of teachers and school leaders in England have written to the School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB) urging it to ignore pressure from the government to cap the teachers’ pay award at 2%. The unions are calling on the STRB to recommend a fully-funded 5% pay increase in September 2019
Response to Teachers’ Pay analysis by Taxpayers' Alliance
Dr Mary Bousted, Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union, has commented on an analysis of teachers’ pay published by the Taxpayers’ Alliance.
NEU comment on Education at a Glance (OECD)
Dr Mary Bousted, Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union, has commentied on the OECD’s Education at a Glance report.
Liberal Democrat Party Conference emergency motion on education
Kevin Courtney, joint general secretary of the National Education Union comments on the emergency education motion passed at today’s Liberal Democrat Party conference.
NEU comment on confirmation of teachers’ pay award
Comment on the government's confirmation of the teachers' pay award and distribution of the teachers' pay grant, which for the first time in 27 years ignores the advice of the STRB.
Teachers’ pay being cut due to lack of annual pay rises and performance related pay progression
Teachers’ pay continues to be cut because schools are increasingly failing to give them cost of living increases as well as denying them pay progression, the National Education Union’s annual national pay survey shows.
NEU calls for a significant increase in teacher pay
The National Education Union is calling for a significant pay increase for teachers to help address the growing crisis in teacher recruitment and retention, pay teachers fairly and help deliver the best possible education for pupils.
NEU pay survey
Almost 34,000 teachers have responded to a National Education Union pay survey, which shows alarming levels of dissatisfaction both with levels of pay and with the performance related pay (PRP) system in schools.
DfE teacher pay increase ‘derisory’
Dr Mary Bousted, Joint General Secretary of the NEU has commented on the DfE’s submission to the School Teachers’ Review Body which suggests a 2% pay increase for teachers
Teachers’ Pay: Joint Union Call for 5% Increase
Organisations representing the overwhelming majority of teachers and school leaders in England have urged the School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB) to recommend an immediate pay increase of 5% for all teachers and leaders, which should be funded in full by the Government.
NEU comment on the Budget Speech
Kevin Courtney, Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union, has commented on the Chancellor’s Budget Speech, delivered today in the Commons.
Undervalued and underpaid, NEU survey of independent school staff finds
The National Education Union’s 2018 independent sector pay & conditions survey reveals that pay in private schools is failing to keep pace with inflation, and that staff continue to experience high levels of workload, much of it unpaid.
Joint union letter to Damian Hinds regarding STRB pay recommendations
Joint union letter to Damien Hinds requesting an urgent response to the School Teachers’ Review Body report on teachers’ pay for September 2018.
Nick Gibb on School Funding
Nick Gibb’s written statement to Parliament ignores the fact that recent reports show education funding is in crisis - Kevin Courtney, Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union comments.
Joint union response on teachers’ pay
ASCL, NAHT and NEU responded to the announcement of a 3.5% pay increase for classroom teachers on the main pay range and the Department for Education’s commitment to funding part of this pay award.
Tutors struggle to get pay from ex-Manchester City player’s training company
The NEU is fighting to help two members who worked at an education services company owned by ex-Manchester City footballer Jamie Pollock get the pay their owed after he terminated their employment with a weeks notice.
Policy
Performance-related pay for teachers
Performance-related pay does not improve educational standards or outcomes, neither does it improve achievement.