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TEACHING STAFF.

Tho following figures have a bearing on the WORKING
number of class toaohers and works instructors re­ HOURS.
quired for the re-organised Technical School :
Length of the School Course ; 2 years (40 weeks par year).
Number of pupils in the school : 100.
Full working hours : 36 per woek.
Number of academic classes : 4 (avorage 25 pupils each)
English lessons per week for each t 4 (total 12 hours)
Mathematics « " " " " : 3 ( " 9 " )
Drawing " " " 11 " i 2 ( 11 12 " )
Number of Trade Groups : 10 (8 to 12 pupils in eaoh)
Workshop hours for each group : 27 per week (9 hours alone
and 18 hours in company with a second group).
The school time-table should be so arranged that 1st year
claeoes take their classroom lessons at times alternate with those
of the 2nd year classes. In any particular trade the 1st and 2nd
year workshop group will, under this arrangement, each spend 9
hours per week alone in the workshop. During the remaining 18
hour8 per week of workshop time the 1st and 2nd year groups will
be working together. Thus, in some of the shops there will be as
many as 24 students working together for this length of time. In
those circumstances the senior instructors should have competent
assistance, a condition which ha3 been borne in mind in compiling
the table of staff shown below.
The distribution of duties and responsi­ GRADING AND
bilities in the school and workshops suggests DUTIES OF STAFF.
a system of stuff grading, upon which salaries
should be bused. Apart from the principal of the School, a clerk,
and the academic teacher or teachers, the technical staff would
fall into three grades, namely ;
1. SENIOR INSTRUCTORS or HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS r- Experienced
technical teachers with practical knowledge of the trades
in their departments.
2. INSTRUCTORS — Junior men with sound trade experience and
good technical education.
3. INSTRUCTOR-WORKMEN — Chosen for their superior craft
skill rather than any educational qualifications.
To conduct the classes and trade groups previ­ NUMBER
ously mentioned the following staff would be required: OF STAFF.
PRINCIPAL OF THE SCHOOL, responsible for the administration,
finance, curriculum, supervision of teaching, outside
contacts of the School, etc., and responsible to the
Government through the Director of Education.
ONE .CLERK, preferably a man with good experience in Govern­
ment business.
ONE ENGLISH AND MATHEMATICS TEACHER., to teach 28 periods (21
hours) per week.

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