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Wednesday, February 14, 1973

The Group proposes that such teachers should be given an "extra-

scale", over the normal salary scale for certificated masters.

This extra scale provides for an increment of $75 per month to

those who have reached the age of 30, and have served five years at

the top of the scale. Two further increments of $75 per month would

follow at intervals of three years.

In addition, the Group confirmed that the present arrangements

should continue, whereby workshop instructors enter the certificated master's

scale two points above the minimum, in recognition of their longer period

of training and experience.

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The Working Group also considered a workshop instructors' claim

for a longer scale, or a "through scale" into the assistant master rank.

On this question it commented: "We understand that a scheme for providing

promotion prospects, on e functional basis, is under consideration, and

without committing ourselves in this instance to a detailed recommendation,

we support it".

The existing structure provides for two ranks on a functional

basis, of workshop instructors II and I, with the latter scale being

the same as that of assistant maater,

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