Teachers seek working hours limit
One of the main teachers' unions in England has toughened its demand for a limit on working hours, in the continuing row over performance-related pay.

Teachers to refuse 10% rise
Most teachers in England and Wales want nothing to do with government plans for a 10% performance-related pay rise, claims a survey.

Merit pay for best teachers
The government's plans to link teachers' pay in England and Wales to the performance of their pupils could mean merit pay for over 100,000 teachers.

How performance would be assessed
The government has drafted examples of objectives which teachers could be set in annual assessments of their performance.

Performance pay: Head to head
The government's final proposals for performance-related pay are being revealed on Thursday. BBC News Online presents two opposing views on the issue.

Peace breaks out in performance pay dispute
The National Union of Teachers, responding to leaks on the government's proposals for performance-related pay, is ready to give a cautious welcome.

Warning over teachers' performance pay
An expert in public sector pay schemes says that performance pay for teachers is unlikely to work - and could lead to scandal.

Performance pay moves a step nearer
The government is creating the framework for performance-related pay for teachers - with the announcement of a ¿22m training package for appraisals.

How teachers can earn £35,000+
Education ministers have been explaining how England's best teachers will be able to earn new performance points.

Heads snub Blair over merit pay
Headteachers are threatening to boycott the appraisal system that will determine performance-related pay for top-performing teachers.

Teachers vote to strike if pay talks fail
Members of Scotland's largest teachers' union have voted to support industrial action if agreement on contracts cannot be reached by August.

Pay promise for deputy heads
The school standards minister has held out the prospect of a separate pay rise for deputy headteachers.

Teachers vote on industrial action
Industrial action by school teachers over the government's plans to introduce performance-related pay moves a step closer.

Union backs dialogue over teachers' pay
The second largest teachers' union in England and Wales adopts a "wait and see" stance on the government's proposals for performance-related pay.

Concession on pay reforms
The government announces changes to its controversial plans to introduce performance-related pay for teachers.

Pay: What the fuss is about
What it is that all the main unions representing teachers in England dislike about the changes the government wants to make to the way they are paid.

Teachers reject £1bn pay package
The National Union of Teachers conference votes against the government's education pay policies.

Government on collision course with teachers
The Education Secretary, David Blunkett, says he will not back away from introducing performance-related pay for teachers after a union threatens to strike over the issue.

Teachers back industrial action
The Association of Teachers and Lecturers is to prepare for industrial action over the government's plans to introduce performance-related pay.

Pay plan 'will not be imposed'
The government's plans to reform teachers' pay will not be implemented if they are rejected by the profession, says an education minister.

Warning over teachers' pay
Ministers need to reconsider key elements of their plans to reform teachers' pay if they want to avoid industrial action, says a union leader.

Performance pay 'unmanageable'
A headteachers' union says proposals to link teachers' pay to achievement are doomed to fail.

Performance pay 'will not mean red tape'
The School Standards Minister, Estelle Morris, has promised teachers that performance-related pay will not mean more paperwork.

Heads say performance pay is unrealistic
Headteachers say that the government's proposals for the 'world's biggest performance-related pay system' should be postponed for a year.

Ballot demanded for teachers' performance pay
The National Union of Teachers is calling upon other unions to join them in balloting members on opposing the introduction of performance-related pay in schools.

Teachers 'reject payment by results'
A majority of teachers opposes linking pay to pupils' results but is more open to other forms of performance pay, according to a survey.

Performance pay 'doomed to fail'
An employment psychology expert says that performance-related pay will not work in schools.

Teachers 'on the way to higher pay'
This year's 3.5% pay increase for teachers is the first step along the road to significant salary improvements for the profession, according to a government minister.

Teachers threaten appraisal boycott
School teachers are a step closer to taking industrial action over the government's proposals for performance-related pay.