Teachers in England are some of the best paid in the world, new figures revealed today.
They receive around £40 for every hour spent actually teaching in classrooms, the sixth highest in the developed world.
A new league table published by the OECD reveals the ‘stark contrast’ between the UK and other developed countries.
On average a teacher in England was paid the equivalent of £27,831 in 2011 while spending 684 hours teaching.
Other countries with a higher hourly rate than England include Denmark, Germany, the United States and Canada.
But the £40-an-hour is much higher than other major European countries including Netherlands (£35.35) Spain (£29.53) and France (£22.27).
My belief is that this is part of a campaign by the government and its stooges in the right-wing press to 'soften up' public opinion as a prelude to the massive cuts in teachers' salaries which I've long forecasted were already in the pipeline. Similar right-wing press articles preceded cuts in welfare payments and public sector pensions.
I'm pretty certain doctors and nurses are next in line for massive cutbacks but no party will admit to it in the runup to the 2015 general election.
