TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1994
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TEACHERS AND PRINCIPALS URGED TO VOTE TOMORROW
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TEACHERS,
THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT APPEALED TO ALL FULL-TIME REGISTERED AND PERMITTED TEACHERS, INCLUDING PRINCIPALS
TO VOTE IN THE FIRST ELECTION TO THE COUNCIL ON PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT IN EDUCATION TOMORROW (WEDNESDAY).
THE ELECTION WILL BE HELD IN INDIVIDUAL SCHOOLS WHICH WILL
SESSIONS UNDER CONDUCT THEIR OWN VOTING
GUIDELINES ISSUED BY THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT,
THE DEPARTMENT WILL CONDUCT RANDOM INSPECTIONS TO ENSURE THAT THE ELECTION IS FAIR.
A DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN CALLED ON TEACHERS OF PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS, KINDERGARTENS AND SPECIAL SCHOOLS TO EXERCISE THEIR RIGHT IN ELECTING CANDIDATES TO REPRESENT THEM ON THE COUNCIL.
THE COUNCIL IS AIMED AT PROMOTING THE INTERESTS OF THE TEACHING PROFESSION BY ENHANCING PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT AND STATUS, THE SPOKESMAN SAID.
HE URGED TEACHERS
AND PRINCIPALS ΤΟ SHOW SUPPORT FOR THE COUNCIL BY VOTING IN TOMORROW'S ELECTION.
IF TEACHERS TEACH IN MORE THAN ONE SCHOOL, THEY SHOULD OPT TO EXERCISE THEIR VOTING RIGHT IN ONLY ONE OF THE SCHOOLS. SHOULD TEACHERS VOTE IN MORE THAN ONE SCHOOL, THE BALLOT PAPERS WILL BE CONSIDERED NULL.
TEACHERS WHO ARE ELIGIBLE ΤΟ VOTE ARE REMINDED TO STUDY CAREFULLY THE INSTRUCTIONS ON THE BALLOT PAPERS BEFORE PUTTING DOWN THEIR CHOICES.
OR
THE SPOKESMAN SAID: "VOTERS SHOULD NOT PUT DOWN THEIR NAMES ANY OTHER MARKS OF IDENTIFICATION ON THE BALLOT PAPERS. OTHERWISE, THE VOTE WILL BE CONSIDERED VOID."
VOTERS CAN CHOOSE CANDIDATES FROM ANY OR TYPES OF SCHOOLS, NAMELY, GOVERNMENT, AIDED AND VOTE FOR A MAXIMUM OF FIVE CANDIDATES, THREE FROM ONE FROM EACH OF GOVERNMENT AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS.
ALL OF THE THREE PRIVATE. THEY MAY AIDED SCHOOLS AND
KINDERGARTEN AND SPECIAL SCHOOL TEACHERS SHOULD CAST NO MORE
THAN TWO VOTES FOR CANDIDATES IN THEIR OWN CATEGORY.
TEACHERS, HOWEVER, ARE REMINDED NOT TO CHOOSE MORE THAN THE NUMBER OF CANDIDATES AS SPECIFIED IN EACH CATEGORY. WHEN THIS HAPPENS, THE VOTE WILL BE TREATED AS INVALID.
"TEACHERS SHOULD NOT MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY REPRESENTATIVES ON THE COUNCIL,' THE SPOKESMAN SAID.
ΤΟ ELECT THEIR
/THE COUNCIL