CO129-498-21 Government Educational department- salaries- prospects and vacancies 15-7-1926 - 25-1-1927 — Page 86

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who at present is one of the 2 Senior Masters on the scale

£750-25-850 (see your despatch No.119 of April 29th, 1926) should be placed on the same scale as the Headmaster, Queen's,

College. The two Inspectors of English Schools should also

be on that scale. Their work is of a very responsible nature, calling for high qualities of character and ability, and these 2 posts would usually be filled by senior men specially fitted to hold them. To avoid complications it

is very desirable that the same scale of salary should apply to all these 4 posts, i.e. two Inspectors of English Schools,

one Headmaster, Queen's College and one Headmaster, King's

College. That scale, I submit, should be £850-50-1100, maximum which gives pensionable prospects more commensurate with services rendered than has hitherto been the case.

There remains, it will be seen, one post of

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Senior Master to be considered. For the creation of this

post, please see paragraph 2 of my predecessor's Confidential.

despatch of September 6th, 1920. While the present incumbent

Mr. R. J. Birbeck, remains in the service, I recommend that

this post should be retained at a salary of £800-25-900, an

increase of £50 over the present maximum. After Mr.Birbeck's

retirement, the retention or otherwise of this post, which

appears to me to have no necessary place in the comprehensive.

grading of British masters, might be further considered.

Inspectors of Vernacular Schools.

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Present scale as for Assistant Masters Class

£400-20-600.

These posts, at present 3 in number, are held

by Chinese scholars with a thoroughly good western education

One is a B.A. of Oxford, and one a B.A. of Cambridge

University. Since the retirement on pension of Mr. A. R.

Cavalier, the Director of Education is considering

arrangements

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