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Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("Raising standards in schools") ["We all I think agree that pruning weak heads and teachers, more rigorous selection and training... and more effective management... are essential... The Chief Secretary recognises... the help a revised structure of pay and conditions of service would give towards this end"; MT "endorses... objective... [but] feels it would be wrong to pay teachers more for what they should be doing anyway"] [declassified Aug 2013]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: PREM19/1012 f64
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Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 8pp
Themes: Primary education, Secondary education, Employment, Pay, Public spending & borrowing, Trade unions, Local government, Local government finance