Teachers

The arrangements your teachers work under. These three decide what a teacher is owed, so they are worth getting right before anybody is paid.

Teaching Contracts

The contracts a teacher can be put on. A contract is a template: set it up once and assign it to as many teachers as work on those terms.

Each contract has a basis, which is the main thing it decides:

Basis	What it means
Claims	The teacher claims for what they delivered
Salaried	The teacher is paid a salary regardless
Sub Contract	The work is sub-contracted

A contract can also require signing. Turning that on reveals how often it has to be signed — yearly, termly, or whenever the teacher's FTE changes — and lets you attach the document itself, which is then what gets sent out for signature.

Hours, per year

A contract's hours are held per academic year rather than once, so rates and commitments can change from one year to the next without losing what the previous year said.

For each year a contract records its contracted weeks and working weeks, and the split of time into contact hours (teaching), unprogrammed hours and other directed hours.

Allowances

Allowances are also held per year. Each gives the allowance, the minutes per year it is worth and a minimum — so an allowance for running an ensemble can be expressed as time rather than money and fed into pay with everything else.

Faculty

The faculties your organisation is divided into, each with a manager.

A faculty is set against teachers and against activity groups, so it describes both who works in that part of the organisation and what it offers. That is what makes it useful for reporting: a faculty's teaching and a faculty's staff can be pulled out together.

Pay Scales

The rates teachers are paid at.

A scale is not a single figure. It holds a series of points, each one effective from a date and carrying twelve amounts plus a travel allowance.

Dating the points is what makes a pay award straightforward: add a new point from the date the new rates apply and leave the old one alone. Work paid before that date stays paid at the old rate, because the claim records the point it was paid at rather than looking the rate up again.

Never edit a point to apply a pay rise

Add a new point effective from the date of the award. Changing an existing point changes what the past was paid at.