Sir, – The reduced starting salary (“Pay for new teachers down 30 per cent since 2010”, Home News, August 28th) for newly recruited teachers is disappointing; perhaps there’s a practical reason for it. A smart policy would be to flatten the teachers’ salary scale, paying them more at the beginning and having only a modest raise over their career span.
End-salaries have dramatic effects on pension liabilities on the exchequer. There is something grotesquely unfair about teachers at work being paid less than teachers on pension, which is the present position. – Yours, etc,