§ 51. Mr. Ralph Beaumontasked the President of the Board of Education whether he is aware that, according to the terms of the current Burnham scales, additional initial payments are made to teachers who have taken a recognised post-graduate diploma course following a three years' course in a university or university college, but that this increment is not paid to such teachers as have taken a diploma course following a three years' degree course in a technical college; that students from these colleges have obtained appointments in elementary and secondary schools but have not received the additional initial payments referred to, and whether he will take steps to remove 1764 this anomaly in the drafting of any new scales that may be agreed upon?
Mr. StanleyIn this matter there is a distinction between teachers in elementary schools and those in secondary and technical schools. The initial increment to which my hon. Friend refers is payable only to graduate teachers in secondary schools and technical institutions who have satisfactorily completed a year of training in teaching, in addition to three years study for a degree in a technical college. My attention has not been called to any case of teachers not receiving these salary increments. I understand that the matter, in so far as it relates to teachers in elementary schools, is about to be considered by the appropriate Burnham Committee.