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The report recommended a special extra-scale for teachers who

were over 30 years of age and had served for five years or more at the

top of the existing scale of $1,750. The recommendation envisaged

further increments of 875 by three-year intervals to a maximum of $1,975.

It also recommended that those accepting this scale should forego any

further right to promotion prospects.

When the Working Group Report was published on 14th February,

interested parties were invited to comment and a period of four weeks

was set aside for this.

In view of comments made by teachers, and the administrative

problems involved in implementing the Working Group's proposal, the

Government has decided that the satisfactory teacher could enter the

extra scale automatically without forfeiting his right to promotion

prospects. The salary points of the extra-scale have been adjusted to

bring them onto the master pay scale at $1,950 and $2,050.

These

The majority of Certificated Masters are in aided schools.

teachers have recently benefitted by the introduction of a new structure

which provides many more promotion posts, In the primary school sector

promotion posts have increased from 76 to 1891, and in the secondary school

sector from 88 to 236.

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