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the bulk of permitted teachers are non-graduates with minimal

academic qualifications and no teaching qualification, concentrated

in the private sector: hence the high proportions of untrained non-

graduates in private primary schools (78.8 per cent) and private

independent secondary schools (82.7 per cent). (It may be assumed

that virtually all of these non-graduates are permitted teachers.

or are in the process of applying for permits, though possibly a

small number of them will be teaching illegally.) The small number

of untrained non-graduates in the government and aided primary and

secondary schools (341 teachers in March 1980, or 1.9 per cent of

the non-graduate teaching force in this sector) consists in the

main of experienced teachers of subjects in which teacher-training

courses were not available when they qualified (e.g. typewriting) or

of subjects in which trained teachers are relatively difficult to

obtain (e.g. religious knowledge). The proportion of untrained

non-graduates in private non-profit-making secondary schools

(30.9 per cent) is not small (but is far less than that in private

independent secondary schools). Arrangements have been made for

these teachers to undergo in-service training in the colleges of

education and the schools concerned are not allowed to recruit

any more unqualified teachers.

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A distinction needs to be drawn here between "qualified"

and "trained" teachers. Qualifications are as set out in the First

and Second Schedules and may or may not include formal training

hence a qualified teacher may be untrained, as many indeed are.

Generally, university graduates become qualified for registration

by virtue of their degree, whereas non-graduates become qualified