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Bulletin 15 Latest on Cuts
All teachers will now receive the 2.3% salary increase in September. This pay award for 2010 /11 is the final part of a three year pay agreement. The Government has decreed that there will be a pay freeze for teachers and public sector workers for the two-year period 2011 / 2013.
More problematic is the Tory demand that the education budget is reduced by a whooping 25% over the next four-year period. This has the potential to be disastrous for children’s learning and teachers’ and classroom assistants’ jobs.
With school budgets increasing this year only by 1.9%: salary increases by 2.3% and inflation at 3.5% problems are looming.
Education administration is a mess. INTO calls on our politicians to agree the early establishment of ESA to ameliorate the worst effects of the Con / Dem cuts.
Members should button-hole their MLAs to get this message across to them. Sitting on our hands is not an alternative.
Enjoy the summer!
Enjoy the summer!
Date: Friday, 25 June 10