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Pay in Sixth Form and Further Education Colleges in Wales

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Sixth Form Colleges

Further Education Colleges

 

Sixth Form Colleges

Pay

There is only one sixth form college in Wales, St. David’s RC College in Cardiff. In terms of pay, the college has been subsumed into the Further Education Colleges sector and is subject to the agreements reached through negotiations by the joint trade unions with the FE employers’ organisation ColegauCymru/Colleges Wales (new window), known as fforwm until 2009, and with the Welsh Government (new window). 

The National Joint Council for Sixth Form Colleges

The National Joint Council for Sixth Form Colleges was set up following the establishment of the colleges as autonomous corporations on 1 April 1993. The remit of the NJC is to negotiate national pay and conditions of service for staff in sixth form colleges, and to recommend agreements reached in the NJC to individual colleges. National agreements negotiated through the NJC are implemented by Colleges to maintain a national bargaining platform rather than individual college bargaining. The NASUWT chairs the Teachers' Side and the Sixth Form Colleges Forum provide the Employers' Side.
 

Performance Management

The Performance Management Framework for teachers in Sixth Form Colleges is contained in Appendix 7 of the Teaching Staff in Sixth Form Colleges Conditions of Service Handbook.

NASUWT Sixth Form College Advisory Committee

The Committee is elected annually and comprises of five nominees from branches (four from sixth form colleges and one from the general FE sector), two members of the Salaries and Pensions and Conditions of Service Committee and one member of the Education Committee, together with the three negotiators on the Sixth Form College NJC.

The Committee meets to consider issues that are particularly relevant to members in sixth form colleges and is always receptive to information from our sixth form college members.

Family Friendly Rights

The NASUWT produces guidance for members with children on the provisions for maternity, paternity, adoption and parental leave. The guidance also contains information on rights to time off for family and domestic reasons. Information on the occupational entitlement to maternity, adoption, paternity and parental leave and pay are contained in Appendix 5 and Appendix 6 of the Teaching Staff in Sixth Form Colleges Conditions of Service Handbook.

Advice on the legal requirements is assessing risks in relation to new and expectant mothers’ job activities is set out in the Health and Safety Executive booklet New and Expectant Mothers at Work: A Guide (new window).

Members have the right to apply to work flexibly where they have:

  • children aged under 17;
  • disabled children aged under 18; or
  • carer responsibilities. 

The NASUWT has produced guidance on requesting Flexible working, and generally on Part-time work and job-share arrangements. 

Many sixth form colleges will also offer the opportunity for teachers to participate in salary sacrifice schemes for childcare vouchers/benefits, cycles for work, mobile phones and other benefits. Detailed guidance on salary sacrifice is provided by HM Revenue and Customs (new window).

Temporary workers and supply teachers

The NASUWT provides advice on the rights of Teachers who work on a temporary basis or fixed-term contracts.

Tax

The Union provides a brief outline of the various tax allowances which teachers are eligible to claim under UK legislation in the NASUWT's brief guide to tax for teachers. 

Further information or assistance

Members needing further information or assistance should contact their Local Association or the Wales National Centre.

Further Education Colleges

Pay 

The NASUWT has negotiating rights in the Further Education sector in Wales. Further Education pay scales in Wales are negotiated though the joint trade unions and the employers’ organisation ColegauCymru/Colleges Wales (new window), known as fforwm until 2009. The aim in Wales is to achieve parity with schoolteachers' pay and this has largely been achieved. Although the colleges in Wales are not bound by the outcome of the negotiations, the Welsh Government (new window) has made it clear that the funding of pay awards will be dependent on colleges accepting the joint trade unions/ColegauCymru (Colleges Wales) agreed pay claim. 

Members should refer to the pay scale and local agreements which operate at their individual College concerning pay, Performance Management, Family Friendly Rights and the rights of teachers who work on a temporary basis or fixed term contracts. In England, the National Joint Forum for Further Education Colleges recommends pay scales which individual FE Colleges may adopt. 

Family Friendly Rights

The NASUWT produces guidance for members with children on the provisions for maternity, paternity, adoption and parental leave. The guidance also contains information on rights to time off for family and domestic reasons. Information on the occupational entitlement to maternity, adoption, paternity and parental leave and pay are contained in Appendix 5 and Appendix 6 of the Teaching Staff in Sixth Form Colleges Conditions of Service Handbook.

Advice on the legal requirements is assessing risks in relation to new and expectant mothers’ job activities is set out in the Health and Safety Executive booklet New and Expectant Mothers at Work: A Guide (new window).

Members have the right to apply to work flexibly where they have:

  • children aged under 17;
  • disabled children aged under 18; or
  • carer responsibilities. 

The NASUWT has produced guidance on requesting Flexible working, and generally on Part-time work and job-share arrangements. 

Many further education colleges will also offer the opportunity for teachers to participate in salary sacrifice schemes for childcare vouchers/benefits, cycles for work, mobile phones and other benefits. Detailed guidance on salary sacrifice is provided by HM Revenue and Customs (new window).

Temporary workers and supply teachers

The NASUWT provides advice on the rights of Teachers who work on a temporary basis or fixed-term contracts.

Tax

The Union provides a brief outline of the various tax allowances which teachers are eligible to claim under UK legislation in the NASUWT's brief guide to tax for teachers. 

Further information or assistance

Members needing further information or assistance should contact their Local Association or the Wales National Centre.