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should act directly under the Principal, Trade and Technical Schools. The latter should, for several years at least, be able to carry out all the administrative work required; by this means the Chief Instructors can devote practically the whole of their time to actual instructional work. One result of this arrangement, the im- portance of which cannot be overestimated during the years of initial development, is that the chain of responsibility between the Principal and the student is reduced to the shortest possible dimensions.
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It is not considered desirable that any "Deputy Principal" be appointed at present: but on such occasions as the Principal may be absent from the Colony the Senior Instructor in the Engineering Department, should be "Acting Principal".
(12) STAFF.
As will have been gathered from previous sections, the qualifications and duties of the Technical Staff will be quite apart from those of the Staff of any English School. For this reason it is considered essential that the Technical Staff should have its own official titles, scales of pay, and conditions of service, and that the Technical Staff should be regarded as one unit whose members should be liable for service in any department of the Technical and Trade Schools.
Official Titles:Differentiation between the English and Technical sides is best made by using, to describe the various appointments, those titles which are in universal use in Britain.
Three titles are in use:-
(a) Principal, as Head of the Institution.
(b) Lecturers, usually Graduates, whose work is in the main Post
Matriculation.
(c) Instructors, whose work is either confined to actual instruction in the
Shops, or whose lecture work is confined to elementary subjects.
(b) Lecturers-It is not contemplated that any appointments in this grade will be made for a period of years, but if the Technical side achieves real success such appointments will require consideration. If the Marine Engineering and Building Course reach the standard aimed at, then these courses will be doing work which is actually in advance of the Matriculation courses; it follows that adequate status should be accorded to the teacher, if his enthusiasm is to be maintained.
Provision should be made whereby the status of Instructors should be review- ed when these reach the maximum salary of the Instructor's Scale; promotion to the higher grade should be dependent on the success of the individual instructor. the standard of the work he is called on to undertake, and his professional quali- fications. No scale of salary for this grade should be fixed meantime, but consider- ing that no Instructor can rise beyond Head of his own department a suitable maximum for Lecturers would be £800 with an addition of £50 for Heads of Departments. In assessing professional qualifications, the value of these must be assessed with reference to the work of the individual concerned. A First Class Board of Trade Certificate, or Corporate Membership of the Institutions of Civil, Mechanical, or Electrical Engineers, must be regarded as a qualification whose value is at least as high as the average B.A. Degree.
(c) Instructors :—In the first instance all appointments will be made to this grade. Four European instructors will be required, two for the Department of Engineering and two for the Department of Building.
The Instructors in each department must between them have a sound working knowledge of each individual Tralde of their separate groups. The Engineering side must be familiar with fitting, turning, erection, smithwork, welding, brazing, general machine work, and repair and maintenance of steam, oil and electrical machinery.