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EDUCATION.
4. Consideration has been given to the question
whether Education Officers should properly be placed
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on the professional rather than the administrative
scale (as is at present the case in Test Africa).
has been suggested that the professional scale is more
suited to the organisation of an Education Department
in that it involves a promotion bar at £840, beyond
which advancement depends upon the occurrence of
vacancies. Thus providing for Headmasters or Senior
Inspectors to be in a higher grade than their
assistants.
In considering these suggestions it is
necessary to bear in mind the effect which a change
in the present system may have upon recruitment.
Education Officers are largely drawn from the same
general sources as Administrative Officers, but apart
from those who feel a special vocation for educational
work, the majority of the candidates who present
themselves from the Universities are more attracted
by administrative than by educational work, and there
is a tendency for the better candidates to seex
employment on the administrative side. This is a
tendency vnich, in view of the importance of the
educational services anu in particular of the
increasing need, as the native population themselves
take a larger part in the educational work in their own
countries, for wise and intelligent supervision
and guidance, is not in the interests of the Service
as a whole; but if the general level of remuneration
in the euucational services is to be reduced below
that of the aministrative Service, no steps which can
be taken to counteract it are likely to be effective.
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