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might suffer as a result of the introduction of indicative drug budgets.
NFIDEN
eachers' Pay for 1990-91
THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR EDUCATION AND SCIENCE said that he had announced on the previous day the remit of the Anterim Advisory Committee (IAC) on teachers pay for 1990-
The additional provision of £600 million was siderably more than in previous years and provided
bility for tackling problems in the educational system
the recruitment and retention of staff. represented an increase in the teachers' pay bill of just over 7.5%.
ver $7 Seen in the context of falling inflation and given the settlement would not take effect until next April, the remit was a fair one. The immediate response of
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the National Union of Teachers and the National Association of Schoolmasters/Union of Women Teachers was however disappoint y Some of the latter's members had staged a walkout at a(Echool in West Yorkshire the previous day, and further industriaction could not be ruled out. Such action would be responsible.
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xplosion at Royal Marine School of
usic, Deal
THE SECRETARY OF STATE ORDERENCE said that there had been a serious explosion at the al Marine School of Music in Deal on the previous Friday/hich 10 Royal Marine Bandsmen had been killed and 12 jured, 8 of them seriously. The number of casualties had been particularly high because of the constructide the rest room in which the bomb had exploded. The explan was the work of the Provisional Irish Republican AmyRA) which had for some time been trying to step up its campaign against military targets in Great Britain. His predecessor had set in hand the previous year a major programme of improvements to the security of defence establishments, costing me £120 million. The benefits of this had already been seen in a number of recent incidents in which intruder had been prevented from entering Service bases, and he was taking steps to accelerate the programme. Nevertheless the size of the security problem was considerable: there over 2,000 defence installations of widely varying degrees sensitivity. He was reviewing security arrangements the light of the incident, in particular the employment r private security firms to help guard establishments. would be wrong to conclude from what had happened at Deal that the employment of such firms should cease: there was proper role for adequately vetted and trained civilians suitable numbers, in support of military personnel, in
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