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CHAPTER 4
REVIEW OF EDUCATION GRADES
Introduction
4.1
Chapter 14 of our Report No. 2 examined the background to the existing structure of the Education grades, briefly dealt with representations by staff, and concluded that a major review was required. We have now completed this review and our recommendations are set out in this Chapter.
Grades Reviewed
4.2
A list of ranks and grades dealt with in this review is in Table B at the end of this Chapter. It includes the Workshop Instructor grade, which is closely related to the Certificated Master grade, although we deal with it separately. Excluded from this review are staff of the English Speaking Schools since the responsibility for their administration is no longer that of Government. We also exclude Laboratory Technicians in the Education Department, whose pay we reviewed in Report No. 2, alongside that of other Laboratory Technician grades. We do, however, refer to a recommended change in the rank structure of the Laboratory Technician grade in Chapter 9.
Organisation of the Education Grades
4.3
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The Education grades work in four streams
Teachers in primary and secondary schools,
Lecturers in Colleges of Education and Technical Institutes,
Inspectors, and
(d) staff concerned with administration.
Each stream has graduate and non-graduate grades. Altogether there are eight grades and twenty-six ranks.
Background
4.4
Before 1972, when the structure of the Education grades was last reviewed, the four separate streams were staffed by the same grade of officers with academic, non- academic or technical duties, with the result that the