Incentives to Attract More Teachers to Mathematics
Potential maths teachers will be offered a host of new incentives in a bid to head off a recruitment crisis in the subject.
Education Secretary Charles Clarke yesterday unveiled plans to lift the salary cap for maths teachers, so that the best-performing and most highly-qualified could earn as much as pounds 60,000.
For advanced skills teachers in maths ( the so-called "super teachers" who use their experience to help other teachers in their subject ( it could mean a minimum salary of pounds 40,000.
And Government bursaries for teacher-training in subjects affected by staff shortages will be increased from pounds 1,000 to pounds 7,000 for maths.
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Article title: Incentives to Attract More Teachers to Mathematics.
Contributors: Not available.
Newspaper title: The Journal (Newcastle, England).
Publication date: June 29, 2004.
Page number: 42.
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