ABSTRACT
Even though both imported bonus types (outcomes-based education and quarterly performance payments) require significant paperwork from education managers, they are, in the end, vague and arbitrary. As mentioned before, education managers do not dare make harsh judgments of teachers’ performance for fear of being criticised as biased and corrupt. As shown in Table 1, almost all teachers (99.2%) receive the so-called Quarterly Performance Payment. Less than a third of teachers receive the outcomes-based education bonus, and 40% of the survey teachers received a bonus because either they or their students ranked first, second, or third at an olympiad in the past year.
