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Teacher Training Requirements
Appendix 1
No educational system can attain the standards
demanded by a competitive world unless the teaching profession
is adequate in numbers and quality.
2.
The Government believes that, in general, the ratio
of teachers to pupils which is now adopted in Government-aided
and assisted secondary schools is adequate in a period of
rapid expansion. Any further improvement in this respect
must be postponed until at least after the targets contained
in this White Paper have been achieved. Consequently, the
estimate of our need for additional teachers during the
next decade is based upon the maintenance of these ratios.
This will be a formidable task.
3.
Present enrolments in the "public sector" (that is
to say, Government-aided schools, assisted schools and
"bought" places in private schools) are now about 160,000 in
Forms I to III and about 50,000 in Forms IV and V a total
of 210,000. By 1979, there should be about 282,000 in
Forms I to III and 86,000 in Forms IV and V- a total of
368,000.
4.
To meet the needs of these extra 158,000 pupils,
a substantial expansion of the teaching profession is
required. The present number of teachers in the public
sector is about 3,400 graduates and 1,550 non-graduate
trained teachers. The extra numbers required under present
staffing arrangements are set out in Part 1 of Table I.
5.
It will be seen that Table I deals separately with
graduate and non-graduate teachers. It makes due allowance
for wastage, whether by reason of death, premature
/retirement
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