912

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 21

13. Service.—Marks for teaching service shall include service up to the 31st day of December preceding, one mark being given for each complete year of the total period of service up to twenty-five years: Provided that—
    (a.) Service as a probationer appointed on or after the 1st February, 1921, or service as a pupil-teacher shall be counted as service of half its length:
    (b.) Each year of an approved course in a teachers’ training college shall count as a full year of service:
    (c.) Any period of military service with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force within the period 4th August, 1914, to 12th November, 1918, shall count as double service:
    (d.) Any period of leave of absence in excess of three months shall not be counted as service, provided that leave of absence granted under the Exchange of Teachers Regulations shall be counted as full service:
    (e.) Teaching service in other countries or in schools other than public schools shall be counted to an extent that shall be determined in each case by the Director.:
    Provided further that in the case of teachers whose service was interrupted by absence with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force during the years 1914–1918, any period of sick-leave due to the effect of military service shall be counted as full teaching service, provided such leave has been granted subsequent to the resumption of teaching service.

14. Quota.—(i.) The quota of marks provided for in clause 6 hereof shall, for each teacher graded in the respective groups, be as follows:—

Group. Quota. Group. Quota.
1 .. .. 20 4 .. .. 80
2 .. .. 40 5 .. .. 100
3 .. .. 60 6 .. .. 120

(ii.) Such quota marks shall be regarded as efficiency marks awarded in recognition of the relatively higher degree of efficiency required to secure in each successively higher group the same number of marks awarded under clauses 6 and 7 hereof.

15. Any teacher who by reason of a correction in the marks allotted him for service or certificate becomes entitled to additional marks shall not in consequence thereof suffer a reduction in the marks awarded him under any other heading.

16. Any teacher who has held the maximum marks for teaching, personality, discipline, environment, organization, and management for a period of at least two years and has been unable to obtain promotion to a position in a higher group may, with the approval of the Director, be graded in the next higher group.

17. (i.) It shall be the duty of the Director to secure and maintain a reasonable degree of uniformity in the standard of marking in the various districts, and to this end he may, as he thinks fit, confer with all the Senior Inspectors conjointly.
    (ii.) If by the decision of such conference it is held that the standard of grading in any district departs to an unreasonable extent from that of the remainder of the Dominion the Director shall instruct the Inspectors of the district or districts concerned to adjust their standard of marking accordingly.

18. (1.) From the grading marks forwarded to the Director by the grading officers shall be compiled annually a general graded list of teachers, which shall be duly published in accordance with the Act before the 30th day of June. Every such general list shall contain—
    (a.) The names of all teachers graded as herein provided, arranged in order, and consecutively numbered in accordance with the total of the grading marks assigned:
    (b.) The name in each case of the district in which the teacher was graded, the nature of the position occupied, and such other information as the Director may determine.
    (2.) Supplementary graded lists shall be published from time to time, and shall contain the names of all teachers whose grading has been determined or altered, in accordance with the regulations, subsequent to the publication of the general graded list, and such supplementary lists shall be deemed to be part of the general graded list.

19. Each teacher who is graded under these regulations shall be supplied by the Director of Education with the separate marks on which his grading was determined, the information thus supplied to be treated as confidential.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.