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for staff, who said they were no longer able to transfer between types
of job as easily as they could before 1972 and who in some cases could
not expect automatically to reach the same level of salaries as was
possible under the previous structure. For some staff this produced a
sense of frustration, jealousy of career prospects in other grades and
a belief that returning to the pre-1972 structure would be a panacea for
whatever dissatisfaction had developed.
3.28 In its 1980 review, the Standing Commission considered that
any recommendations for changes in the structure of the education grades
must take account of the functional differences between ranks and grades
that now existed, and that a return to the pre-1972 'monolithic' structure
was both impractical and undesirable. The Commission concluded that its
aim should be to establish a closer relationship between the pay scales
of ranks with the same levels of responsibility in different grades,
while recognising the need to retain some differences to reflect the
needs of particular grades and streams. Its detailed recommendations
(which were subsequently accepted and implemented by the government) are
at pages 17-33 of Report No.5. The Standing Commission expressed the hope
that a reduction in the number of ranks paid on different scales from
19 to 12, as recommended, would help to reduce the inter-grade frictions
which had developed, as well as providing management with a grade
structure which would facilitate inter-grade transfers and promotions.
While the Commission did not believe that a return to a monolithic
structure was feasible it considered that the grade structure proposed
would go some way towards meeting the demands for improved career
opportunities that lay behind the wish to see such a structure re-
introduced.
3.29
As pointed out, salaries of teachers in the aided sector now
parallel those of the government sector for comparable responsibilities.
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