Medical Teachers' Pay

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The Intricacies of the Relationship Between Pay and Performance for Teachers: Do teachers respond to Performance Related Pay schemes?

Performance related pay (PRP) has been introduced for teachers in the UK, as part of a drive to improve the outcome of public service and teaching in particular. For the introduced individual PRP scheme to be effective, teachers must have an effect on pupil attainment, must respond to financial incentives, must respond to performance based pay and within this to individual PRP schemes. This rev...

Selection of Medical Teachers

Using performance-based pay to improve the quality of teachers.

Tying teachers' pay to their classroom performance should, says Victor Lavy, improve the current educational system both by clarifying teaching goals and by attracting and retaining the most productive teachers. But implementing pay for performance poses many practical challenges, because measuring individual teachers' performance is difficult. Lavy reviews evidence on individual and school-bas...

Willingness to pay in medical education

Dear Editor: In the UK and in many other countries throughout the world, medical students are paying for their medical education [1] . They might be paying the entire fee or a sizable proportion of it but many of them are increasingly making a contribution. As students make more of a contribution, inevitably they will start to see themselves not just as passive recipients of a medical education...