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Duties, Qualifications, and Conditions of Service. (a) DUTIES AND QUALIFICATIONS.

5. Officers appointed to the Service are as a rule first appointed as European Masters in English schools, where their duti include the teaching of either (a) English, History, Geography and sometimes Latin, or (b) Mathematics or Science, to forms preparing for the Cambridge Local Junior and School Certificate examinations and London University Matriculation. Masters are also from time to time required who are qualified to teach commercial subjects.

Candidates must be between the ages of 21 and 35 at the time of taking up their duties in Malaya; definite preference is given to men under the age of 30. They should have been educated at a public school or similar institution and must hav

a Degree, usually a Degree with Honours, of a British Univer sity. Candidates able to supervise and join in school games, cadet corps and scout work are especially suitable for work in Malaya. For a proportion of vacancies candidates must. normally, have also a recognized Diploma in Education or equivalent professional qualification. For other vacancies can- didates having no professional qualification, and little or no teaching experience, are considered on the understanding that,

if selected, they will be required to undergo (at Government expense) a special course of training of one academic year in educational methods, practice, etc., at the University of London In either Institute of Education before proceeding overseas. case selected candidates will ordinarily be required to attend a preliminary course of instruction in the Malay Language at the School of Oriental Studies, London.

Unless a candidate has private means, he should be unmarried and should remain so until he is put on the pensionable establish- ment.

(b) TERMS OF APPOINTMENT, SALARY, ETC. Officers are appointed for a probationary period of three years in the first instance. If the officer's services are retained, he is then placed on the permanent and pensionable establishment. Ordinarily it is made a condition of being placed on the per- manent establishment that the officer shall pass an examination in the Malay language. If his services have been satisfactory but are not retained at the end of his probationary term of appointment, he is granted leave with full salary at the rate of 45 days for each year of resident service and provided with a return passage.

Salaries are paid in Straits Settlements dollars while the officer is in Malaya, and for purposes of leave and pensions are, at $1, which rate has present, calculated at the rate of 25. 4d. remained unaltered for many years.

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The salary is $400 a month, rising by $25 annually to $800 month with an efficiency bar at $600 (equivalent to (500-£35-£840–£35,£1.120 a year). During the voyage to Malaya half salary is paid.

There are in addition posts carrying salaries above the maxi- mum of the time scale, promotion to which is strictly selective. These are, at present:-

(a) Chief Inspector of English Schools, salary $1,050 a month (1470 per annum).

(b) Senior Education Officers:-

(i) Special Grade.

Salary $950-$25-$1,000 a month (£1.330— £35-£1.400 per annum).

Inspector of Schools, Singapore and Labuan. Inspector of Schools, Perak.

Principal, Sultan

Tanjong Malim.

Idris Training College,

Principal, Raffles Institution, Singapore.

(ii) Grade A.

Salary $900 a month (£1,260 per annum). Inspector of Schools, Penang.

Superintendent of Education, Johore.*

Headmaster, Malay College, Kuala Kangsar.† Headmaster, Free School, Penang. Superintendent of Education, Kedah.*

(iii) Grade B.

Salary $850 a month (£1,190 per annum). Inspectors of Schools (2) Selangor and Malacca. Headmasters (7).‡

If an officer has children, he will be granted a non-pensionable children's allowance at the rate of $70 a month for a first child and $50 a month for a second child, up to the age of 18 years. The term children" does not include step-children or adopted

hildren.

Officers of the Department are provided with quarters and furniture for a nominal payment, in the Straits Settlements of

6 per cent. of the officer's salary and in the Federated Malay States of about $20 a month (for newly-appointed officers).

An officer is required to place his whole time at the disposal of the Government and is not allowed to engage in private tuition. In the larger centres there are normal classes in which officers

• Unfederated State appointment.

+ This appointment is filled by the Board of Governors of the College, but usually from the cadre of the Malayan Educational Service.

Including two Unfederated State appointments.

nually to $800 equivalent to ng the voyage

bove the maxi- rictly selective.

alary $1,050 a

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