4. As regards (b), the Code lays down that the salaries of teachers who are graduates of approved British Commonwealth, European or American universiti. / or training colleges shall be at the rate laid down for assistant teachers in the Burnham scale of 1945. At the same time it was felt necessary to add to the scale Overseas Allowances at the rates specified above, for those teachers not domiciled in the Far East. As you will see from the remarks column of the second enclosure to this letter, the advantage of this arrangement is that the superannuation contributions of such people in England will continue at the normal rate, and their incremental scale will not be affected.
5. Since we received Sir Mark Young's recommenda- tions, we have referred the revised Code to the Non- African Sub-Committee of the Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies, for their comments. This body is, of course, concerned primarily with the educational principles involved, and certain of their comments on those aspects are now under consideration here. At the same time, we have been endeavouring to obtain an accurate estimate of the additional financial commitment which the two proposals at (a) and (b) above represent. This means going through comprehensive lists of all the teachers in the grant- aided schools who will benefit by the new arrangements, and I am afraid there are still one or two matters of detail in the cases of a few individuals about which we are not yet clear, and on these/håve had to refer back to Hong Kong. we can, however, say that the additional expenditure involved will be within a few pounds of £750 per annum as a minimun and of £1050 per annum as a maximum.
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