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Education. The number of trained/untrained teachers in different types of primary day school in March 1979 is shown in the table below:-
Classification
of training
Univer-
No. of teachers
Government
Aided
Private
Total
sity
Trained
6
300
137
443
graduate
or equi-
Untrained
7
560
153
720
valent
t
Non- graduate
Trained
1,232
13,691
456
15,379
Untrained
1
155
1,623
1,779
Total
1,246
14,706
2,369
18,321
5.23
Proposals are in hand to improve the training of teachers at both University and College of Education levels. The 1978 White Paper on the Development of Senior Secondary and Tertiary Education proposed an increase in the basic training course for most non-graduate teachers from 2 years to 3 year's and a working party has been planning the new courses to make the most effective use of the increased period of training. However, while the initial training of a teacher is extremely important it is unrealistic to assume that one period of training before a teacher starts his career will equip him for life. Educational ideas change and teachers need to adapt to them. Furthermore teachers can become very stale without some opportunity to stand aside and evaluate what they are trying to achieve. The 1978 White Paper accordingly recommended the introduction of systematic retraining courses for teachers.
5.24
It is proposed that retraining should be a joint responsibility of the Colleges of Education and the Advisory Inspectorate.
Systematic retraining
5.25
retraining:
(a)
(b)
The Government considered two possible ways of providing systematic
by taking the teacher out of his school for single days spread over a fairly extended period of time, for example 1 day a week for a number of weeks; and
for continuous periods of training in which the teacher would be taken out of his school for several weeks at a time.
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