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is to get in due course a Director of Education
with the required qualifications and Mr. Burney
was quite right in saying that if a first rate
Senior Inspector can be found from outside he
should be made Director as soon as he has had time
to master the facts of the situation (page 18 of
his report). If a man is to be recruited from
home it seems to me essential that he should be
given a definite promise that he will be made
Director within a given period, say three years, if
his work as Chief Inspector is found satisfactory.
A promise of this kind would enlarge very
profitably the field of selection and I do not
believe many really first class men would come
forward for a post that may be terminated in three
years, without any definite prospect of advancement
at the end of three years.
If this definite prospect of the Directorship
can be given I should imagine that the proposed
salary would be found adequate. But I think it
would be wise to consult Mr. Burney regarding both
the salary for the Inspector's post and regarding
the views of the Governor, as expressed in
paragraph 3 of his despatch, before the work of
recruitment from outside bes begun. I suggest
that he might also be authorised to discuss the
matter with the Chief Inspector of the Board of
Education.
Bitting
9.5.36.
The Governor is "strongly against
giving the person to be selected a revers-
ionary claim to the higher appointment"
and I should hesitate to override his
objections unless and until it can be