Proposals for special payments to teachers working in disadvantaged areas
- Title
- Proposals for special payments to teachers working in disadvantaged areas
- Genre
- Interview
- TX Date
- 30 Aug 1995
- Year of production
- 1995
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- Duration
- 00:03:13
- Description
- Live telephone interview with shadow Education Secretary David Blunkett on Education and Employment Secretary Gillian Shephard’s proposals to introduce special payments to teachers to induce them to work in schools in disadvantaged areas, floated in her letter to the school teachers review body which decides on levels of pay. He is critical and calls for a package of measures to improve standards. Also welcomes the launch today of a government inquiry into A level standards following the recent improvement in results. Female interviewer not identified.
- Contributors
- David Blunkett
- Keywords
- Wages; Education; Teachers; Schools; Educational standards; Gillian Shephard; A level examinations; Examination results
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