fact that Houghton compares teachers pay to that of salaried public sector workers, whereas the NUT compares it with the average manual wages. Teachers" pay has fallen by 40 percent compared with other INPRECOR is the fortnightly information organ of the United Secretariat of the Fourth International published in English, French, Spanish and German. The first issue of 1975, appearing on 10 January, will be a special double issue on the world economic crisis, including two articles by Ernest Mandelprice 30p. But subscribers will get it as part of their subscrip tion. Rates are £4 for 25 issuesorder now from INPRECOR, 97 Caledonian Rd. London N. 1. compared with other public sector Why is this? Because the pay of public sector workers is controlled directly by the Government. This is what the social contract means for teachers a 20% decline in pay. This, coupled with the education cuts, means that the standard of education will fall-and this under a Labour Government supposedly committed to the welfare state'.
WOMEN MORE TEA side, It strengibens the tendency for women teachers to be kept at the FOR bottom of the scales. Most women come into teaching through the colJenes of education, and not after 2oing lo university, so that the increuse in the graduate non-graduate dilterential actually discriminates against women teachers.
75 per cent of teachers are women, and that over 70 per cent of primary teachers are on the old scales 1 The Houghton Report has a third PODELS In primary schools we find that Jon Duveen ....
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