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Thursday, March 29, 1973
In the new scale normal annual increments will apply until
$1,750. At that point certificated masters aged 30 or over, who have
served satisfactorily for five years on $1,750, will move automatically
and without prejudice to their promotion prospects to a salary point
of $1,850 per month and then at three-year intervals to $1,950 and
$2,050. Such teachers who had been at the top of the scale for five
years on 1st April 1971, or became eligible at any time since then, will
automatically move onto the new point of $1,850.
Commenting on the announcement, Government spokesman said:
"The Government has largely accepted the recommendations of the Working
Group appointed in November to consider salaries for certificated masters.
But it has also taken into account proposals and petitions received
from interested parties."
Concern
"In reaching its decision, the Government has noted the concern
This concern
shown by teachers in their comments and public statements.
has concentrated more on the status and dignity of the profession than
on the pay scales alone."
Commenting on the role of education in Hong Kong, the spokesman
said, "The expanded education programme is one of the major priorities of
the Government during the next 10 years, and the quality of the teaching
profession, as well as the numbers of teachers coming available, are vital
factors in the success of that programme.
"The decision announced today will contribute in no small way
towards that development," he said.
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