Moving to the South East

[Wiesbaden67]

We are looking at moving to the South East of England, not sure what area yet. My wife and I are both educators and working with Teachlondon to gain employment in the British school system. Would an offer of 30,000 pounds be reasonable for a veteran teacher of 14 years with a Ph.D.?

Thanks,
Dr. D

[gkloken]

In my humble opinion you don't want to fall for that one, you are worth far more than 60,000!

[MichelleAlison]

When you say the South East, do you mean London? If so, I think the going rate is more than 30,000 pounds. Before I left London, I was a college teacher and I was earning more than that and I only had a BA degree.

Michelle

[Big Pete]

Originally Posted by gkloken

In my humble opinion you don't want to fall for that one, you are worth far more than 60,000!

hmmmmmmmm a tad over the top at £ 60,000

[Stravinsky]

On the news the other day it mentioned that school teachers are going for a starting salary in the current pay rounds of £23k

[Big Pete]

Originally Posted by Stravinsky

On the news the other day it mentioned that school teachers are going for a starting salary in the current pay rounds of £23k

Yep that sounds more like it to me ...

[MichelleAlison]

Don´t forget that the OP said that he has 14 years experience. I am sure that 23,000 pounds a year is for newly qualified staff.

[kaz101]

Hi everyone,

I have a friend who's been teaching for years in college in SE London and I'm certain that she's not on anything like 60,000 GBP. So I had a look on google and found this website from http://www.tda.gov.uk/upload/resourc...r_salaries.pdf.

It states the max for an excellent teacher is 43,860 GBP and then it goes up more if you are in a leadership group (I don't know what that is).

The other website to check out is TDA – Training and Development Agency for Schools – pay and benefits

You can earn 60,000+ but that only appears to be if you are in a leadership group or headteacher, but the headteacher salaries start at 39,525 GBP.
That website was of September 2007.

Hope that helps,
Karen

[Big Pete]

Originally Posted by kaz101

Hi everyone,

I have a friend who's been teaching for years in college in SE London and I'm certain that she's not on anything like 60,000 GBP. So I had a look on google and found this website from http://www.tda.gov.uk/upload/resourc...r_salaries.pdf.

It states the max for an excellent teacher is 43,860 GBP and then it goes up more if you are in a leadership group (I don't know what that is).

The other website to check out is TDA – Training and Development Agency for Schools – pay and benefits

You can earn 60,000+ but that only appears to be if you are in a leadership group or headteacher, but the headteacher salaries start at 39,525 GBP.
That website was of September 2007.

Hope that helps,
Karen

If they earn that much how come they was on Strike over here last Tuesday , as there wages supposedly arent enough to buy a Flat in Hull ??
Maybe a Top professor at a College or a Head Master who generally runs the school could acheive that if they had diplomas etc etc ..

But lets live in the real world A teacher who works some 9 months of the year taking out all them school holidays and stuff and only teaches the middle Hoodie type of kids to earn that is a discgrace so therefore Stravinskys findings are most nearer the mark

ps; I would think its hardly likely the OP would go straight into a Head Master role would he ? so dont build his hopes up with fancy earnings ..

[Stravinsky]

Originally Posted by MichelleAlison

Don´t forget that the OP said that he has 14 years experience. I am sure that 23,000 pounds a year is for newly qualified staff.

My family are in teaching. They pay as little as they can. As I understand it extra salary comes off the budget so they keep as low as possible, and the salaries vary depending on where the school is. Apparantly.

As far as I'm concerned they cant get paid enough, dealing with the little sh!ts that are around nowadays!