is required for appointment.
26
Existing
Assistant Education
26
36
26
-
Proposed
37
Officer (Administration)
Education Officer
36
47
38
-
47
(Administration)
Senior Education
48
K
51
48
-
51
Officer (Administration)
Transfer from Non-Graduate to Graduate Grades
4.19
We have considered the need to give due recognition to those non-graduates who, by virtue of their experience and ability, have demonstrated fitness for transfer to the graduate grades. The present situation whereby the very best of the non-graduates are confined to the non-graduate grades despite long experience and proven ability because they have not acquired a degree fails, in our opinion, to make the best use of the staff resources available. We therefore propose that the Education Department adopt a system whereby members of both the Certificated Master grade of the rank of Assistant Master and above together with members of the other non-graduate grades can apply to transfer to vacancies in the entry ranks of the non-teaching graduate grades. Applicants should have a minimum of ten years' relevant experience. Successful appointees would be on trial for two years.
Simplication of Grade Structure
4.20
The adoption of the measures proposed in this Report will reduce the number of ranks paid on different scales from 19 to 12, and we hope that this will help to reduce the inter-grade frictions which now exist, as well as providing management with a grade structure which will facilitate inter-grade transfers and promotions. While we do not believe that a return to a monolithic structure is feasible, we consider that the grade structure proposed will go some way towards meeting the demands for improved career opportunities that lie behind the wish to see a monolithic structure re-introduced. Tables C and D attached to this Chapter illustrate the proposed structure in comparison with the existing structure.