§ Mr. Patrick Jenkinasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science why no increment is payable to a teacher who attains post-graduate qualifications after attaining first and second class honours degrees, although an increment is payable if the first degree was of third class or lower standard.
§ Mr. CroslandThe current statutory salary provisions provide for two additions in respect of high academic qualifications: £100 to a graduate teacher and a further £120 to a graduate teacher with a first or second class honours degree or a higher degree. These provisions thus limit to a maximum of £220 the total addition a graduate may receive, but treat a good honours degree and a higher degree as alternative means of attaining that maximum. No graduate teacher is therefore debarred from this maximum because his first degree was not of good honours standard.