Teacher apprentices will be paid on unqualified scale
Trainee teachers on a new postgraduate teaching apprenticeship will be guaranteed an unqualified teacher’s salary, the government has announced.
The Department for Education says schools will not be allowed to pay apprentice teachers the apprentice minimum wage, which is currently £3.50 per hour.
Instead, they will be paid a salary in line with the unqualified teachers’ pay scale, which starts at £16,626 for those working outside London.
Unions had expressed fears that the introduction of a teaching apprenticeship would allow schools to pay new recruits less than current trainees.
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