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Tuesday, April 10, 1973
A start has already been made in one government primary school
which has been converted to whole-day sessions to allow pupils more time
for extra-curricular activities.
This scheme is to be extended in September of this year, when
seven more primary schools will also operate whole-day sessions.
The Board of Education has also been asked to advise on the degree
of bi-sessionalism it considers appropriate in the short and long term in
secondary schools.
The Government shares the concern of the Joint Secretariat for the
position of teachers in private schools.
Much has been done for teachers in private non-profit making
secondary schools, These teachers already benefit from schemes which
provide assistance from public funds to help pay their salaries, and these
allowances have recently been increased to bring the salary scales of
these teachers into line with the recently improved salary scales in
government and aided sectors. Details will be announced shortly.
Furthermore these schools also benefit from a classroom allowance
which helps meet their recurrent expenditure. This allowance has been doubled
within the last month.
Private profit making schools, however, are free to distribute their
profits as they like. It is therefore difficult to work out a scheme to
provide financial assistance for teachers in these schools, since it is not the Government's policy to subsidise private profit making ventures with
taxpayers' monay.
/The Government
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