CO129-599-2 Salaries Commission- 1947 Report 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1949 — Page 53

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equivalent. Promotion to health inspector grade I should depend upon passing the necessary examinations of the Royal Sanitary Instituto and upon a test of efficiency. Where it is necessary to recruit an overseas candidato for direct appointment as a health inspector grado I the candidate should be required to have obtained the necessary qualifications and to have had practical experience as a health inspector. Promotion to senior health inspoctor or chicf health inspector should continue to be dependent upon vacancics. We recommend that malaria inspectors and senior malaria inspectors should recoive the same rates of pay as health inspectors grade II and grade I respectively.

Equcation Department.

111.

In framing our recommendations for the Education Department we have divided the teaching staff into four categories:-

(i) uncertificated teachers;

(ii) certificated teachers who have successfully

completed a teachers' training college course but who are not unive.sity graduates;

(iii) teachers who are university graduates and have

successfully completed a teachers' training course or obtained a diploma in education;

(iv) qualified graduate teachers who have in addition

had a period of valuable teaching experience.

112.

We understand that Goverment is not at the moment employing officers of the first category, but wo have recommended rates of pay for uncertificated teachers since we are informed that such teachers are employed in grant-aided schools in which salarios are paid according to Government scales. We recommend or certificated teachers a soven year scale rising in the case of mon from $ 3600 per annum to 5100 per annum and from $2880 per annum to 4080 per annum in the case of women. We propose that local graduate teachers should bo called assistant mastors or assistant mistresses and that they should be on a ton year scale commencing at $ 5400 per annum for assistant masters and 4320 por annum for assistant mistrosses. We recommend that men and women with higher qualifications, valuable experience or special aptitude should be promoted at any point to the grade of master or mistress. Ordinarily promotion to the grade of mastor or mistress should be dependent upon the passing of an efficiency bar. Candidates recruited from overseas would be expected to possess not only the necessary academic qualifications but also teaching experience. Certificated teachers should be able on passing an officiency bar to proceed on the same scale as assistant masters or mistresses but should not go beyond the maximum of that grade.

113.

We recommend that senior masters and mistresses should be appointed by selection and that this grade should in future be regard.od as a probation grado for officers who will eventually rise higher in the Department and not as a place of refuge for senior officers who will never proceed any further. For inspectors of vernacular schools we recommend a scale commencing three increments

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