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TUESDAY, JULY 10, 1990

MEASURES TO RESTORE MORALE OF TEACHING PROFESSION

SHORT AND MEDIUM THE GOVERNMENT IS WORKING HARD TO FORMULATE

TEACHING PROFESSION AND ΤΟ TERM MEASURES TO RESTORE MORALE OF THE

MANPOWER, IMPROVE ITS ATTRACTIVENESS, THE SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND MR K.Y. YEUNG, SAID TODAY (TUESDAY),

THE COLLEGES OF

SPEAKING AT THE JOINT GRADUATION CEREMONY OF EDUCATION THIS AFTERNOON, MR YEUNG SAID THE GOVERNMENT WAS CONSIDERING OF SERVICE GENERALLY TWO SHORT TERM MEASURES TO IMPROVE CONDITIONS FOR TEACHERS IN GOVERNMENT AND AIDED SCHOOLS.

THE FIRST AIMED TO IMPROVE THEIR PAY AND PROMOTION PROSPECTS.

OF PROPOSALS REGARDING ALL THE EDUCATION GRADES COMMISSION

SERVICE CIVIL

HE NOTED THAT A COMPREHENSIVE PACKAGE THE PAY, STRUCTURE AND RELATED MATTERS OF

TO THE STANDING HAD BEEN SUBMITTED SALARIES AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE.

ON

CIVIL STREAM WILL

"ALTHOUGH THE STANDING COMMISSION IS ONLY CONCERNED WITH SERVANTS ANY PROPOSED CHANGES TO THE GOVERNMENT TEACHING ALSO AFFECT AIDED SCHOOLS, MR YEUNG SAID.

11

TO

MORE

ATTRACTIVE

RELEASE THE WHILE HE DECLINED

DETAILS OF

PROPOSED THE DELIBERATION OF THE PACKAGE SO AS NOT TO PRE-EMPT OR INFLUENCE

PROPOSED COMMISSION, MR YEUNG, HOWEVER, TOLD THE GRADUATES THAT THE

AND RETENTION BY MAKING THE PACKAGE SOUGHT TO IMPROVE RECRUITMENT

IN TERMS OF TEACHING PROFESSION

PAY

AND SCALES

THE

PROMOTION PROSPECT.

"IT IS EXPECTED THAT THE

ITS

STANDING COMMISSION WILL MAKE RECOMMENDATION TO THE GOVERNMENT BY THE END OF THIS YEAR," HE SAID.

INTO RELATES TO

"THE OTHER SHORT TERM MEASURE WE ARE LOOKING THE AIDED, RATHER THAN THE GOVERNMENT SECTOR," MR YEUNG SAID.

IN

TO GIVE TEACHERS HE POINTED OUT THAT IT WAS NOT POSSIBLE AIDED SCHOOL PARITY OF TREATMENT WITH THEIR COUNTERPARTS IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS.

"FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENCES

OF EMPLOYMENT SHOULD BE POSSIBLE FOR EXAMPLE IN

EXIST IN THE TERMS BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT AND AIDED SECTORS, BUT IT FOR THE GAP TO BE NARROWED FOR AIDED SCHOOL TEACHERS, SUCH AREAS AS ASSISTANCE TOWARDS HOUSING," HE SAID.

ARE

IF ALL GOES MEASURES

GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT "THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT AND THE NOW EXPLORING VARIOUS POSSIBILITIES AND I AM HOPEFUL THAT, WELL, WE WOULD BE ABLE TO CONSTRUCT A PACKAGE OF APPROPRIATE BY THE END OF THE YEAR, MR YEUNG SAID.

MR

SAID ONE

THE

ENHANCEMENT

OF

FACET OF IMPROVING

YEUNG ON MEDIUM TERM MEASURES, TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT WAS ONLY THE ATTRACTIVENESS OF THE TEACHING PROFESSION.

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