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83. Part-time teachers engaged in instructing approved classes shall be classified in Division I or Division II, and there shall be paid to the controlling authority with respect to such teachers a teacher-hour capitation of—

Division I—Men, 8s. ; women, 6s. 6d. :
Division II—Men, 6s. 6d. ; women, 5s. :

evening hours being counted time and a quarter: Provided that the rates of payment of individual teachers may be varied by the managers, subject to the approval of the Minister, so long as the average rate of payment per hour for each class is substantially equal to the corresponding rate of teacher-hour capitation: Provided further that in special circumstances the Minister may approve the payment of higher rates than those specified herein to specialist teachers taking advanced classes.

IVe. STAFFING AND DUTIES.

84. (i.) In every technical high school there shall be not more than one full-time assistant for each complete twenty-eight pupils on the roll of the school at the 1st day of March: Provided that where instructors are employed part time in a technical high school each ten half-days of such part-time instruction shall count as the weekly service of one normal full-time assistant.

(ii.) Of the equivalent full-time staff of assistant teachers employed by a technical school board not more than one-sixth of the total number shall receive net salaries, excluding allowances, in excess of £335 per annum for women and £460 per annum for men, and not more than one-third net salaries, excluding allowances, in excess of £290 for women and £390 for men, the nearest whole number being taken in each case: Provided that, except where otherwise prescribed in these regulations, each teacher shall be paid the salary corresponding to his classification unless he be appointed, with the approval of the Director, after this regulation comes into force, to a position in which the maximum salary payable is less than that corresponding to his classification, in which case he shall receive the maximum salary corresponding to the position to which he is appointed. The Director of Education shall, on the coming into force of this regulation, require the governing body of each technical school or technical high school to submit for his approval its proposals under this clause in respect of the staff of such school, and such proposals shall be subject to revision in his discretion.

85. In cases where technical day schools having part-time pupils in attendance are staffed, in whole or in part, by full-time teachers, there shall be not more than one full-time assistant for each complete twenty-eight units in the “equivalent full-time roll number,” each ten half-days of part-time instruction to count as the weekly service of one full-time assistant. The “equivalent full-time roll number” shall be determined by adding to the number of full-time day pupils on the roll of the school at the 1st day of March the number obtained by dividing by twenty the total average weekly hour-attendances of part-time day pupils at the school for the last two weeks in March and the first two weeks in April.

86. In general no class shall be approved unless in addition to the conditions otherwise prescribed there is, in the opinion of the Director, an adequate number of pupils on the roll of such class.

87. Full-time teachers under these regulations shall be expected to give service up to ten half-days per week for at least forty weeks in the year, no period of less than two hours’ duration being counted as a half-day (evening hours counting time and a quarter), except where a shorter period has been approved under clause 6 (iii), nor more than two school hours of supervision of drill or sports included weekly: Provided that half-days in excess of ten shall be deemed to be overtime: Provided further that in the case of itinerant instructors occupied for not less than ten half-days weekly in travelling and teaching in day classes, overtime rates may be paid on account of evening and Saturday classes.

88. Notwithstanding anything in these regulations, the Minister shall have power in exceptional cases to determine the number of teachers who may be employed at any time in any technical school or technical high school. In any doubtful cases the decision of the Minister is to be final.

89. For the purposes of these regulations the term “board of managers” shall be held to include the controlling authority in any case where there is no board of managers.

V. INSPECTION.

90. All manual, technical, and continuation classes and schools shall be inspected from time to time by the Superintendent of Technical Education, an Inspector of Technical Schools, and such other Inspectors of the Department as may be deputed thereto. The Superintendent of Technical