Question follow-through · 20104

Sixth Form Colleges: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to provide additional funding to non-academised sixth form colleges for increasing the pay of teachers to the same level as teachers in academised sixth form colleges.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body: Department for Education
Tabled: 13 Dec 2024
Target answer date: 18 Dec 2024
Answer: 19 Dec 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

13 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to provide additional funding to non-academised sixth form colleges for increasing the pay of teachers to the same level as teachers in academised sixth form colleges.
18 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Dec 2024
Answer published
The government is not responsible for setting or making recommendations about teacher pay in further education (FE) colleges, including sixth form colleges which unlike 16-19 academies are part of the statutory FE sector.The Autumn Budget 2024 set out the...

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