A confidential briefing paper seen by the Guardian reveals education measures including disciplinary changes to improve behaviour and increase pay for teachers.
The document, marked “Official-Sensitive”, includes plans to increase teachers’ basic pay to £30,000 by 2022, open a new wave of free schools and encourage school leaders to confiscate or ban mobile phones, allowing teachers to use “reasonable force” to curb bad behaviour.
If you are a teacher, school leader or work in education we would like to know your thoughts on the proposals.
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What do you think of the proposed measures? Do you think the financial incentives will help the UK education crisis? How do you feel about the proposals regarding pupils’ behaviour? If you work as a teaching assistant, how do you feel about proposals to reduce numbers? What’s your view on introducing more academies and free schools including provision for excluded children?
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