Governors are reported to be offering five figure salaries to head teachers

The salary range for headteachers btw is £35,794 to £100,424 (£42,559 to £107,192 in inner London) and it's up to the governing body where they set it at.

Wife applied for a head teaching job advertised @ £85k. No different than other sectors - if you want to attract good candidates, you need to offer a good salary. it's particulary difficult for schools with bad reps - they have difficulty atracting good staff so they offer more money.

Headteacher have difficult specialised jobs, long hours and lots of stress - they have to be good class teahcers, excellent at admin, have a lot of financial responsibility, have to attend a lot of training and have massive responsibility - they deserve the money imo.
 
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I've noticed the quality of the BBC news website deteriorating rapidly recently. An awful lot of spelling mistakes creeping in as well as lots of innappropriate or incorrect photos used within stories!

Now that can't even count!
 
amigafan2003 said:
Erm, been happening a while now - wife applied for a head teaching job advertised @ £85k. No different than other sectors - if you want to attract good candidates, you need to offer a good salary. it's particulary difficult for schools with bad reps - they have difficulty atracting good staff so they offer more money.

And what to you mean "how dare they offer five figure salaries"? Headteacher have difficult specialised jobs, long hours and lots of stress - they have to be good class teahcers, excellent at admin, have a lot of financial responsibility, have to attend a lot of training and have massive responsibility - they deserve the money imo.

Or are you simply jealous?
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Sarcasm detection fail :p
 
amigafan2003 said:
Erm, been happening a while now - wife applied for a head teaching job advertised @ £85k. No different than other sectors - if you want to attract good candidates, you need to offer a good salary. it's particulary difficult for schools with bad reps - they have difficulty atracting good staff so they offer more money.

And what to you mean "how dare they offer five figure salaries"? Headteacher have difficult specialised jobs, long hours and lots of stress - they have to be good class teahcers, excellent at admin, have a lot of financial responsibility, have to attend a lot of training and have massive responsibility - they deserve the money imo.

Or are you simply jealous?
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jealous? £10,000 count the figures there... full time minimum wage is just about a 5 figure salary
 
Kami said:
I've noticed the quality of the BBC news website deteriorating rapidly recently. An awful lot of spelling mistakes creeping in as well as lots of innappropriate or incorrect photos used within stories!

Now that can't even count!
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I think they're getting rushed to put stuff up as soon as it's close to ready, a lot of stuff does seem to get edited once it's gone up
 
My dad's a head teacher, earns just a hair over 100k. He always gets into work at 8am and 3 out of 5 days a week he won't leave until at least 8pm. Yesterday he didn't manage to get home till 10:30pm (20 min drive so can't have left before 10pm).

I'd say if most are like him they're earning their wages just fine thankyou BBC. Really annoys me when you see teachers getting criticised for their pay, the vast majority more than earn it.
 
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