HC Deb 11 February 1965 vol 706 c119W
Mr. Patrick Jenkin

asked 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. Crosland

The 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.