notícia... da educação... e da negociação centralizada dos ordenados dos professores [isto prejudica os alunos...?]... lá por terras de sua majestade...!

"Pupils' education is suffering because their teachers' pay is negotiated centrally, according to new research that finds a pupil's exam performance drops by an average of one GCSE grade when there is a 10% rise in local private sector salaries.

The study, by academics from the University of Bristol, analysed data from around 3,000 state secondary schools in England, which educate 3m children a year.

Current national pay scales for teachers allow for little regional variation; the average differential in teachers' wages between inner London and north-east England is 9% compared with 30% for private sector jobs, the study says.

This can cause difficulties in recruitment and retention, especially of the best teachers, the paper's authors say."

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