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Article 34 of the Amended Code is therefore not acceptable
to the Anglican Grant Schools.
5. The Anglican Grant Schools Councils share the Director of Education's concern that the increased cost of Grant-in-Aid Secondary Education should not block needed improvements in primary education. They would point out that the proposed limitation of school charges does nothing to reduce the cost of the Grant Code, and makes it impossible for the Schools to set aside sufficient sums for rebuilding and approved developments. They are willing to consider amendments to the Code which would reduce the cost to Government of the Grants, provided that such amendments make for the increased freedom and responsibility of the Managers.
The whole of the present system whereby grants are made towards the cost of repairs and of new furniture and equipment has the effect of throwing such an intolerable burden of correspondence upon the Heads of
It was the Schools that they are distracted from their proper duties. opinion of the meeting that if the present provisions for the claiming of grants for furniture and equipment and minor repairs camot be main- tained without the oppressive regulations which are now attached to them, a total revision of the Code should be made, so that the recurrent grant should be, for example, a proportion of the cost of salaries plus an adequate capitation grant. The effect of the present arrangements is giving rise to great anxiety.
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I am instructed to draw your attention to the complete conflict with the principles of paragraph 2 (b) and (c) above which is created by the whole of the present tendency to direct in detail from the Education Department the everyday management of the Schools as evidenced, for instance by recent requirements making compulsory the collection of fees monthly, forbidding entrance examination fees, determining the date of medical reports, restricting the amount and
It is uged that frequency of voluntary charitable giving, and so forth. regulations which may be necessary to control schools which are run for private profit should not be applied to Grant Schools which have responsible Managers, but that the latter should be asked to observe the minimum requirements, the Government having the power to reduce or withdraw grants if the required standard of educational efficie ng is not maintained.
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With regard to Article 16 of the Amended Code, the Meeting considered that a charge allowance of two hundred dollars a month is a totally inadequate remuneration for the responsibilities and duties of Heads of Schools. The present system of payment of Heads may, and does, lead to Assistant Teachers receiving higher salaries than the Heads. The meeting, therefore, requests that a separate salary scale for Heads should be introduced or that the lines of the most recent Burnham Scale recommendations should be followed.
9. I am instructed to press for the speedy implementation of the Clause providing for the payment of an Overseas Allowance to expatriate teachers which has been in the Code since 1946. Not only does indecision on this point make the task of recruiting staff from England desperately difficult, but the payment of such an Allowance has already been written in to the Agreements made with certain European teachers since the War. To quote the same Report once again, "The scale (of salaries) should be calculated in such a way as to attract teaches
The with the qualifications assumed by Government to be necessary". meeting could see no reason why the implementation of this Clause should have been subject to so great a delay.
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Finally, I am instructed to say that representatives of the Anglican Grant Schools' Councils are entirely ready to meet with you, Sir, to discuss further any of the points raised in this document; or alternatively to arrange for a deputation from the Councils to discuss