CO129-603-1 Education Department- revised grant code 5-2-1947 - 14-4-1948 — Page 40

3. As regards (a) the charge allowance proposed

in the revised Code for Heads of schools is at the

rate of $150 per month for schools of less than 800 pupils,

$200 per month for the remainder (£112.10s and £150 per

year respectively).

4.

As regards (b), the Code lays down that the

salaries of teachers who are graduates of approved

British Commonwealth, European or American universities

or training colleges shall be at the rate laid down

for assistant teachers in the Burnham scale of 1945.

At the same time it was felt necessary to add to the

scale Overseas Allowances at the rates specified above,

for those teachers not domiciled in the Far East.

As you will see from the remarks column of the second

enclosure to this letter, the advantage of this arrangement

is that the superannuation contributions of such people

in England will continue at the normal rate, and their

incremental scale will not be affected.

5.

Since we received Sir Mark Young's recommendations,

we have referred the revised Code to the Non-African

Sub-Committee of the Advisory Committee on Education in

the Colonies, for their comments.

This body is, of course,

concerned primarily with the educational principles

involved, and certain of their comments on those aspects

are now under consideration here. At the same time, we

have been endeavouring to obtain an accurate estimate of

the additional financial commitment which the two proposals

at (a) and (b) above represent. This means going through

comprehensive lists of all the teachers in the grant-aided

schools who wilt benefit by the new arrangements, and

I am afraid there are still one or two matters of detail

in the cases of a few individuals about which we are not

yet clear, and on these we have had to refer back to

Hong Kong. We can, however, say that the additional

expenditure

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