Judith Burns at BBC News Online reports on the Sutton Trust performance related pay poll.

Over half of teachers in state schools in England support linking pay to pupils’ progress and results, suggests a survey.

The National Foundation for Educational Research polled over 1,000 teachers for the charity Sutton Trust.

Some 55% of primary teachers and 52% of secondary teachers said incremental pay rises should depend at least in part on performance.

But almost half favoured the old system of linking pay to length of service.

From September the government will require schools to link pay progression, for teachers in the first five years of their career, to classroom performance.

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