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sector schools in or after September 1981, it will also be compulsory

for any serving teachers whom the Director of Education considers

to be particularly in need of such training. Courses for other

teachers will be made available as widely as possible with priority

being given to teachers from schools adopting the activity approach.

It is intended that once the scheme is in full operation in 1986,

800 teachers will receive the eight-week full-time course each year.

The retraining will be the responsibility of the Colleges of

Education with the assistance of the Advisory Inspectorate.

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4.6

Schools

It is intended to allow schools to engage temporary

teachers to replace teachers attending retraining courses.

will be encouraged to send a different teacher on each of the four

courses conducted in any one academic year so that the temporary

teacher can stay in that school for a whole year. Temporary teachers

will be paid at normal teaching rates (including holidays) and the

work will count for service and increments as in the case of regular

teaching.

4.7

In addition to systematic retraining, there is a need for

refresher courses to introduce new curriculum ideas and other

innovations. These will normally be carried out by the Advisory

Inspectorate as at present. The Government considers that it would be

appropriate for teachers attending such courses to be relieved of some

of their teaching duties provided the courses are considered by the

Director of Education to be necessary for the teachers to carry out

the work effectively. It is, therefore, intended that half the time

spent on such a course should be in the teachers' own free time but the

rest of the course should be arranged in school time and the teachers

released from their teaching duties to attend it. This is taken into

account in the new staffing ratio proposed in Chapter 6.

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