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(a) that 65 per cent of the total teaching force

are females, almost exclusively so in the

kindergarten sector (97.4 per cent) and

predominantly so in the primary sector

(71.6 per cent); and that male teachers are

slightly in the majority (51.5 per cent) in

the secondary sector and predominant in the

post-secondary sector overall (76.8 per cent);

(b) that 60.8 per cent of the total teaching force

are employed in government and aided schools

(53.6 per cent in grant and subsidised schools;

7.2 per cent in government schools), the

remaining 39.2 per cent being in private schools;

(c) that only 26.5 per cent of the total teaching

force are university graduates (or have

qualifications accepted as equivalent to

university degrees for employment purposes);

and that the primary sector is staffed almost

exclusively by non-graduate teachers (93.9 per

cent); the secondary sector having a small

majority of university graduates (55.7 per cent);

(d) that 62.1 per cent of the total teaching force

have undergone a formal course of teacher training;

that the majority of graduate teachers are untrained

(60.5 per cent); that the majority of non-graduate

teachers are trained (70.2 per cent); that 93.4 per

cent of the teachers in government schools (graduates

and non-graduates) are trained; and that 77.3 per cent

of the teachers in private schools (graduates and non-

graduates) are untrameA.

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