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(a) that 65 per cent of the total teaching force
are females, almost exclusively so in the
kindergarten sector (97.4 per cent) and
predominantly so in the primary sector
(71.6 per cent); and that male teachers are
slightly in the majority (51.5 per cent) in
the secondary sector and predominant in the
post-secondary sector overall (76.8 per cent);
(b) that 60.8 per cent of the total teaching force
are employed in government and aided schools
(53.6 per cent in grant and subsidised schools;
7.2 per cent in government schools), the
remaining 39.2 per cent being in private schools;
(c) that only 26.5 per cent of the total teaching
force are university graduates (or have
qualifications accepted as equivalent to
university degrees for employment purposes);
and that the primary sector is staffed almost
exclusively by non-graduate teachers (93.9 per
cent); the secondary sector having a small
majority of university graduates (55.7 per cent);
(d) that 62.1 per cent of the total teaching force
have undergone a formal course of teacher training;
that the majority of graduate teachers are untrained
(60.5 per cent); that the majority of non-graduate
teachers are trained (70.2 per cent); that 93.4 per
cent of the teachers in government schools (graduates
and non-graduates) are trained; and that 77.3 per cent
of the teachers in private schools (graduates and non-
graduates) are untrameA.
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