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Education Department staff

3.26

Within the Education Department officers in the education

grades work in four streams:

(a) as teachers in primary and secondary schools;

as lecturers in colleges of education and technical institutes;

(b)

(c)

as inspectors; and

(a) as staff concerned with administration.

Each stream has graduate and non-graduate grades composed of various

ranks.

A typical hierarchy of ranks is that of the lecturer grade

viz: for non-graduates, Assistant Lecturer and Lecturer (Non-graduate);

and for graduates Lecturer (Graduate), Senior Lecturer, Principal

Lecturer*, Vice-Principal and Principal.

3.27 A review of the education grades was carried out in 1980 by

the Standing Commission on Civil Service Salaries and Conditions of

Service. In its Report No.5 (October 1980) the Commission pointed out

that before 1972, when the structure of the education grades had last

been reviewed, the four separate streams were staffed by the same grade

of officers, carrying out academic, non-academic or technical duties,

with the result that the responsibilities of staff in the different

streams varied and each rank covered a wide range of duties.

structure introduced in 1972 would, it was hoped, establish clear

functional levels of administration and enable teachers in aided schools,

who form the majority of the teaching force, to receive the same pay as

teachers in government schools. However, different requirements in

some streams resulted in changes in structure and number of ranks.

The new

The resultant structure caused difficulties: for example, the existence

of eight separate grades was alleged to have reduced career opportunities

* This rank, which is for heads of subject departments, includes some non-graduates in the specialisms (art and design, home economics, music, physical education).