CO129-603-1 Education Department- revised grant code 5-2-1947 - 14-4-1948 — Page 58

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Enclosure No. 2.

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PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO GRANT CODE

REMARKS

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Fart 1-Recurrent Grants

Section 7- Amend to read;-

This section as it stands is not sufficiently explicit. It is obviously The amount of the grant shall be the impossible for the schools to be run difference between the approved expendi-successfully on a grant paid annually nor

ture of the school and its income from school fees. Recurrent grants-in-aid shall be estimated in advance for a period of 3 years and be paid quarterly in advance. The adjustment of the difference between the estimated and actual annual expenditure and income will be made annually at the end of the 4th quarter.

does the paragraph indicate whether the grant is to be paid in advance or in arrears, With the grant estimated for a period of three years, there seems to be no reason why it should not be paid quarterly in advance with an accounting during the last quarter for any adjustments which may be necessary between the actual and estimated expenditure and income.

Section 10.

The salaries of teachers who are graduates of approved British Common- wealth, European or American Universi- ties or Training Colleges shall be at the rates laid down for assistant teachers in the Burnham Scale of August 1945. Any such teachers whose perma- nent domicile is outside the Far East shall in addition receive a special Overseas allowance at the following rates:-

£100 for Men (per annum) £ 70 for Women

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Charge Allowances

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Heads of Schools shall be entitled to a charge allowance in addition to the salary allowed by Section 10 of these regulations. Such charge allowance shall be at the rate of $150 per month for schools of less than 300 pupils

The object of this section is obviously to keep salaries within the basis of the scales of Missionary Societies who appoint their members as teachers of Grant Schools. We feel, however, that it will be necessary to adopt a definite scale. The introduc- tion of the Burnham Scale was stressed by Bishop Hall on the grounds that it would facilitate recruiting of teachers from England, particularly those who might be willing to come out for a period of 3 years. We coneider that it will be necessary to add to the Burnham Scale certain special Overseas allowances for those teachers not domiciled in the Far East. Such a scale would have the advantage that their Super- annuation contributions in England would continue at the normal rate as would also their incremental scale. It will be seen that the maxima of these cales are less than those proposed in Section 10 with the exception of Headmasters and Headmistresses. This, however, would remove the possibility, under Section 10 of an assistant drawing the same salary as the Head. We have, however, added a new Sub-Section introducing

and at $200 per month for the remainder.Charge Allowances for Heads of Schools.

Any lower rates of pay would not attract teachers from England at the present time, when there is such a demand for them at

Home.

Section 11- Belete whole section.

There have been very strong objections from all sections of the Grant Schools about this section. We have unaimously agreed that it should be deleted, and such action will make little practical difference to the administration of the Code. It seems to us to be a very unfair provision since Section 10 imposes no such restriction on European teachers.