MONDAY, APRIL 18, 1994
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TEACHING CONDUCT COUNCIL ELECTION TO BE HELD ON WEDNESDAY
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THE TEACHING PROFESSION WILL VOTE ON WEDNESDAY [ APRIL 20) TO SET UP ITS OWN COUNCIL ON PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT.
THE FIRST ELECTION TO THE COUNCIL ON PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT IN EDUCATION WILL BE HELD IN INDIVIDUAL SCHOOLS WHICH WILL CONDUCT THFIR OWN VOTING SESSIONS UNDER GUIDELINES ISSUED BY THE EDUCATION
DEPARTMENT.
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DEPARTMENT APPEALED ΤΟ ALL FULL-TIME REGISTERED AND PERMITTED TEACHERS, INCLUDING PRINCIPALS AND HEAD TEACHERS, ΤΟ VOTE IN THE ELECTION.
A DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN CALLED ON TEACHERS ΤΟ EXERCISE THEIR RIGHT IN ELECTING CANDIDATES TO REPRESENT THEM ON THE COUNCIL. WHICH IS AIMED AT PROMOTING THE INTERESTS OF THE TEACHING PROFESSION.
HE REMINDED TEACHERS WHO ARE ELIGIBLE TO VOTE TO STUDY THE INSTRUCTIONS ON THE BALLOT PAPERS BEFORE PUTTING DOWN THEIR CHOICE.
"VOTERS SHOULD NOT PUT DOWN THEIR NAMES OR ANY OTHER MARKS OF IDENTIFICATION ON THE BALLOT PAPERS. OTHERWISE, THE VOTE WILL BE CONSIDERED VOID, HE SAID,
VOTERS CAN CHOOSE CANDIDATES FROM TYPES OF SCHOOLS
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ANY OR ALL OF THE THREE
GOVERNMENT, AIDED AND PRIVATE.
THEY MAY EACH VOTE FOR UP TO FIVE CANDIDATES, THREE FROM AIDED SCHOOLS AND ONE FROM EACH OF GOVERNMENT AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS.
HOWEVER, HE REMINDED TEACHERS NOT TO CHOOSE MORE THAN THE NUMBER OF CANDIDATES AS SPECIFIED IN THE CATEGORY. WHEN THIS HAPPENS P THE VOTE WILL BE TREATED AS INVALID.
THE SPOKESMAN POINTED OUT THAT CANDIDATES IN ANY OF THE CATEGORY WOULD BE ELECTED NOT ONLY BY A MAJORITY
VOTE, BUT ALSO BY THE MINIMUM NUMBER OF VOTES.
IN OTHER WORDS, CANDIDATES MUST RECEIVE AT LEAST 500 VOTES IN SECONDARY OR PRIMARY SCHOOLS, 300 IN KINDERGARTENS AND 200 IN SPECIAL SCHOOLS IN ORDER TO BE ELECTED.
"TEACHERS SHOULD NOT MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY TO ELECT THEIR REPRESENTATIVES ON THE COUNCIL,' THE SPOKESMAN SAID.
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THE COUNCIL IS A NON-STATUTORY BODY TO ADVISE THE GOVERNMENT ON MEASURES TO PROMOTE PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT IN EDUCATION, INCLUDING THE DRAFTING OF OPERATION CRITERIA DEFINING THE CONDUCT EXPECTED OF
AN EDUCATOR, AND TO ADVISE THE DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION IN CASES OF DISPUTES OR ON ALLEGED PROFESSIONAL MISCONDUCT.
IT HAS 28 MEMBERS
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14 IN THE TEACHER-NOMINATED CATEGORIES, IN THE ORGANISATION-NOMINATED CATEGORIES AND THREE ARE NOMINATED THE DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION.
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