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Standards depend upon a number of factors, arguably

Of slightly lesser

the most important being the capability of the teachers.

importance are the nature of the curriculum, the school environment

and the teaching materials available. The Government intends to make

improvements in all these aspects of primary education.

Teachers in Primary Schools

4.3

dards of

Heads and teachers play the major role in establishing the stan-

education and it is essential that their training fits them

for this task. The 1978 White Paper mentioned above extended the length

of the non-graduate teacher training course from two to three years with

a two-year course reserved for those with at least two subjects with Grade E

or above at Advanced level. However, while this will ensure that all new

entrants to the profession will be adequately trained, a majority of the

present teaching force has only had two years' training and in a large

number of cases only a one-year training course. As a result, the majority

of existing teachers are not trained to standards now considered desirable,

while even the new three-year trained teachers will need refresher training

after they have been teaching for a few years.

4.4

The 1980 Green Paper proposed regular courses of systematic

retraining for serving primary school teachers and it is proposed to

implement this retraining in September 1982.

4.5

A course of retraining lasting about eight weeks will be

available for teachers twice during their teaching careers: the first

taking place from five to ten years after initial training and the second about

ten years later. This training will be compulsory for teachers entering public-

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