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Staffing Recuirements for Remedial Teaching and Other Duties
6.5
In order to make remedial teaching possible, additional staff
will be required, and since the amount of remedial teaching needed will be
proportional to the size of the school, it is considered appropriate to
modify the teacher to class ratio to take into account the additional work-lond.
6.6
In Chapter 4, a number of measures designed to improve standards
in primary education were set out. These included the establishment of
class libraries, improvements to audio-visual aids services and the facility
for teachers to attend in-service training courses partly in school time.
These improvements will involve an extra work-load for staff and therefore
also justify some improvement in staffing.
6.7
Taking all these factors into account the Government has decided
to increase the teacher to class ratio from 1.1 : 1 to 1.2 : 1.
6.8
It is emphasised that the additional staff provided by this
revised ratio are intended specifically to make it possible to implement
the measures described above, and in particular to introduce remedial
teaching. It is proposed that the new staffing ratio will apply to all
Government and aided schools from September 1982. However, any school
failing to introduce a substantial element of remedial teaching within one year
will have the ratio reduced. The continuation of the enhanced ratio for
any school will subsequently depend on a satisfactory programme of remedial
teaching being maintained. The Codes of Aid will be amended to reflect
these intentions.
6.9
Since one of the objects of the introduction of remedial teaching
is to reduce repetition, a substantial reduction in repetition rates will
also be required.
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