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TEACHERS are due to receive an “above inflation” pay rise of 2.75 per cent, the government has announced.
This equates to little more than £2 a day for the average teacher and comes after a 15 per cent real-terms pay cut — shadow chancellor John McDonnell has described it as “insulting.”
After years of austerity this announcement has rightly been met with criticism and unions say the figure is inadequate. The timing of the release has also been questioned as by now schools will have broken up for the summer and budgets long since set.
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