Teacher Pay Scales Weighted Against Scottish University Graduates?

[Meagaidh]

My brother in law was a teaching union rep in England in the 1990's and claims that teachers who were graduates of Scottish Universities could not progress up the pay scale as well as those from English Universities. I think he is talking through his underpants. But could he be right??

[Flonska]

This article suggests that Teachers' salaries in Scotland were lagging behind those in England:-

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/scots-teachers-salaries-fail-to-keep-pace-with-england-bnqxrkbjx

[Prudie]

That does suggest that teachers were paid less in Scotland but has nothing to with coming from Scottish Universities and teaching in England. I was teaching into the late 80s and my school barely knew what Uni I went to so find that very far-fetched.

[Meagaidh]

Thank you both. I should have made it clear that he was saying that graduates from Scottish Universities, teaching in English schools, were not allowed to progress up the pay scale at the same rate as graduates from English Universities. I still think he is talking pants!

[fiction-factory]

I don't see any reason for that to be the case now. As Prudie said, schools I have worked at probably have no idea which university i went to unless the chose to look it up. The progression rules are clear and take no account of which university (except one person I knew started a point higher up because he had a first from Oxford and I started a bit up teh scale because of previous experience rather than my university).
I suppose it may have been the case in the 1990s - that was before my time

[Old_Geezer]

I am not in a position to know, but I wonder if your BIL is Scottish and didn't progress up the career ladder as far as he'd hoped.

[jno]

OG, as a union rep he'd have much more than just his own experience to draw on. I don't know whether he was right, of course, but if a lot of Scottish teachers were failing to progress, one might wonder why.

[Meagaidh]

Being a union rep does not prevent my BiL from being wrong! He was a teacher in England and will have taught from around 1975 until 1995. He says he was representing the case of a woman who had been denied scale progression and the union had said he could not win because the reason she could not progress was because she was a graduate of a Scottish University. He began the conversation with "Scottish degrees are of less value than English ones". Now I am a graduate of an English University but have lived in Scotland for many years so I took umbrage on behalf of my adopted country! I have calmed down since and have lost the urge to throttle him, but I'd still like to know where this idea could have come from. He himself was not a graduate teacher - he went to an English teacher training college.