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152. Education Department.

Paragraph 149. It has been ascertained that the Commissioners

were under a misapprehension regarding the length of the University

course for graduate teachers (non-British). Had it been three

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ycars, no they understood it to be, the sala ry of a teacher in

this class would have been always ahead by $150 per annum of that dram by a non-graduate teacher, entering the scrvice at

the same time, until both came to a stop at the maximur.

course is, however, a four year onc, and, owing to the two

marriage increments granted to the non-graduate teachers, their

calory and that of the graduates as awarded by the Report, will coincide as carly as the cighth year of service. In order,

therefore, to maintain the premium for a University training,

it is recomended that the graduate teachers shall receive a double increment ($300) in their seventh year of servicc.

It will be convenient to include here recommendations

on a matter not dealt with by the Commission, namely, the fees

paid to lectureres at the Technical Institute, many of them are

Government officers. It is proposed, in order to keep

in line with the general increases awarded to Educational Staff

to raise the rates for those services as follows:-

For the English side:

Present rate $4 to $6 per hour.

Proposcd "

$7 to $8 per hour.

according to average attendance.

For the Vernacular sidos

Present rate $2 to $5 per hour.

Proposed # $4 per hour.

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