Teachers wages Vs school performance, a correlation

February 09, 2016

Research Fact

" Schools Perform Worse When Teacher Pay Is Relatively Lower "

Teacher pay affects school performance . The English public school system has a centralized pay system for its teachers that results in flat wages across the country, which createtes a gap between teacher pay and private sector wages.

The researchers found that a 10% increase in the gap between average wage and teacher wage results in an average loss of about 2% in average school performance on the key exams taken at the end of secondary school and a 5% loss in a key metric by which school quality is assessed by the national school regulatory body.

They also found  ( no less impoortant ) that a measure of teaching quality from inspections by the national regulator is LOWER -  where wage shocks are higher.

Source: Teacher pay and school and  according to a study by Carol Propper at Imperial College, University of Bristol and Jack Britton at the Institute for Fiscal Studies.