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  • ED 1921961-2001Ministry of Education and Department of Education and Science: Teachers Branches I (Supply and Conditions of Service) and II (Training): Registered Files (R, RS, TCH and TST Series)

    This series includes records concerning salaries of teachers and university academic staff, supply of and demand for teachers, development of specialist training courses, teacher training and qualification requirements, teacher training issues arising from the proposed transfer of responsibility for the teaching of educationally disabled children from the Ministry of Health, reduction of oversize classes, shortage of mathematics and science teachers, encouragement of married women to return to teaching, the quota system for Local Education Authorities, revision to the machinery for salary negotiation, the introduction of a one year professional training council to award and withdraw certificates to regulate the profession, pupil-teacher ratios and class sizes, development of relationships with examination boards, and aesthetic development.