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2. Attendance at voluntary camps with the C.M.F
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3. Illness which may occur as a result of service with the armed forces.
Details of such conditions may be obtained from the principal of your school.
Long Service Teachers are entitled to three months' long service leave Leave after ten years service or four and a half months long service
leave after fifteen years service. For the purpose of deter- mining long service leave entitlements your service with the Education Department is considered to commence from the date of your appointment as a studentship holder or student instructor or temporary or permanent teacher.
If you had previous service with a Government or semi- Government department, this service, too, may count towards your total service; but you must make an
individual application to the Teachers' Tribunal to have this service recognised.
A woman teacher who resigns to be married after at least five years' service (including training years) will receive pay in lieu of such leave.
ACCIDENTS AND WORKERS' COMPENSATION
All teachers, including students-in-training, are covered under the provisions of the Workers' Compensation Act for injuries received in the course of their duty at school or College or when travelling directly to or from their place of duty. Report of Injury Forms may be obtained from the College office. Studentship holders should submit them to the Vice-Principal of the College; other students to their school Principal.
Any accident which occurs while a student is on College duty should be reported to the Vice-Principal of the College, whether compensation is to be claimed or not.
SALARIES AND ALLOWANCES
Salaries paid to teachers are the responsibility of the Teachers' Tribunal. Information on current salaries payable may be obtained from the Principal of your school.
REGULATIONS AND DEPARTMENTAL NOTICES
Three main sets of regulations, made pursuant to relevant Acts of Parliament, concern members of the Teaching Service. They are:
(a) The Education Department Regulations.
(b) The Teaching Service (Governor-in-Council) Regulations.
(c) The Teaching Service (Teachers' Tribunal) Regulations.
Copies of these regulations are filed in the College library and in all schools and members of the Teaching Service should be generally familiar witn them In addition, instruct- ions and circulars are issued from time to time; these, too, are filed in the library and may be consulted by students.
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Many notices and items of interest to teachers are published in the Education Gazette, which appears twice monthly.
Copies of the Education Gazette are available in schools, and in the library and the common room at College. You should form the habit of looking over the contents of this publication regularly.
APPOINTMENT AS PERMANENT TEACHERS
Temporary Temporary teachers who have the qualifications set out in Teachers Regulation 9 of the Teaching Service (Teachers' Tribunal)
Regulations may apply for appointment to permanent positions in the Technical Schools Division. (The qualifi- cations required for appointment to permanent positions in the Secondary Schools Division are set out in Regulation 8.) Qualified temporary teachers may apply for vacancies advertised from time to time in the Education Gazette, or by circulars to schools; or they may apply directly to the Education Department at any time.
Temporary teachers who have the required academic or trade qualifications are advised to apply for permanent appointment as soon as they have successfully completed.
their College course. Application forms may be obtained from, and should be submitted through, the principal of your school.
Studentship Subject to medical fitness, studentship holders and student Holders and instructors are assured of permanent appointment to the Student Teaching Service upon satisfactory completion of their Instructors training courses. They then become eligible for
superannuation rights. In their final training year they may be called up for medical examination during Second Term vacation. They will be advised of the date and time of this examination as soon as these have been fixed by the School Medical Service.
Posting to schools: In their final year of training, student- ship holders and student instructors may apply for appoint- ment, by the Committee of Classifiers, to Assistant
positions in schools. Those who secure positions in this way will be regarded as having a permanent position in the school to which they gain appointment; except in unusual circumstances they will not be moved from that school unless they wish to move; they may move by gaining promotion, at any time, but may not move by way of transfer before they have served in the position for three years.
The majority of exit students, however, do not secure positions in this way. Instead, they are temporarily posted to schools by the Staffing Officer. When determining which school an exit student shall be posted to, the Staffing Officer pays as much heed as he can to the student's own preference. Therefore, before the end of his final training year, each student will be invited to submit for consider-
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ation a list of schools in order of preference, and a
statement of any special circumstances he/she believes should be taken into account. Postings are generally made known before the end of the final training year. Teachers who have been temporarily posted to schools may apply at any time for transfer to advertised or consequential vacancies.
Classification of exit students: On their appointment as studentship holders or student instructors, trainee teachers are given a provisional classification on a supplementary roll of tecnnical school teachers. At the end of their final year of training they are given a position (based on qualifications, experience, and training course results) on the Classified Roll of Teachers in the Technical Schools Division.
Notice the difference, implied here, between permanent appointment to the Teaching Service, and permanent positions in particular schools. As explained earlier, all studentship holders and student instructors are, subject to medical fitness and satisfactory progress during the training course, assured of permanent appointment to the Teaching Service. Some, however, may secure permanent positions in particular schools as a result of their application for advertised or consequential vacancies, whereas others will be posted to schools—as far as possible in accordance with their expressed preferences—wherever they are needed.
Housing SOME POST-TRAINING POINTS
If you are posted to a country school and have difficulty finding a home, the education Department's Welfare Officer may be able to help. Let him know, too, if you own or rent a house in Melbourne which could be available for another teacher. His address is 234 Queensberry Street, Carlton.
You may arrange with any life assurance company to have insurance contributions deducted by the Education Department from your fortnightly salary cheque.
Unmarried teachers who have to pay more than one-third of their salary for suitable board may apply to the Teachers' Tribunal for an excess board allowance. Married teachers who are unable to obtain suitable residences and are therefor.
compelled to live away from home or to pay board for themselves and their families may apply to the Teachers' Tribunal for special allowances. Applications for these allowances should be sent to the Education Department through the Principal of your school.
Insurance
Living Allowances
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Salaries, Qualifications and Promotion
After your final training year, you will be paid a salary dependent upon your qualifications, your industrial experience, and your successful completion of the training course. The salary scales prescribed by the Teachers' Tribunal provide different ranges within the "Assistant"
class according to whether teachers have, or have not, the qualifications required for promotion to the "Senior Teacher" class. These salary scales, and the prescribed starting points and ranges for teachers on first appointment after the training period, are set out in the Teaching Service (Classification, Salaries and Allowances) Regulations.
Subject to satisfactory teaching, teachers receive a salary increment annually until they reach the maximum of the prescribed range.
Notice that if your academic qualifications or your teacher training course are incomplete you will start at a lower salary than if both were complete. When trained teachers' certificates are issued, payment at the relevant rate is automatically recommended to the Teachers' Tribunal.
Therefore, as soon as you complete all requirements for the award of a trained teacher's certificate (see pages 24-26) you should immediately apply to the College for the award of the certificate so that in the next year you will be paid the relevant salary.
The qualifications required for promotion within the Technical Schools Division are set out in Regulation 9 of the Teaching Service (Teachers' Tribunal) Regulations. The Education Department, through a system of free courses, makes it possible for teachers to gain additional
qualifications under attractive conditions. Watch the Education Gazette for information about these courses.
Free tuition at technical schools and reduced fees at universities are also available to teachers seeking additional qualifications. Teachers who gain additional qualifications should notify the Department in writing, as soon as results are known, and should enclose confirmatory evidence.
Superannuation Every teacher, upon classification as a permanent member of the Teaching Service, and subject to medical fitness, will become a compulsory contributor to the Superannuation Fund. (A voluntary superannuation fund is available for teachers who, for medical reasons, cannot be accepted into the regular superannuation scheme.)
Full details of the superannuation scheme may be read from the pamphlet in the library. In addition, a member of the Superannuation Board will visit the College to explain details to exit students, and answer their questions, before
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the end of the year; and at least one subsequent session will be provided, during which students may fill in the
necessary forms under guidance.
Travelling If your first appointment after training is to a position out- Expenses side the metropolitan area, travelling expenses for yourself
and your wife and family and the cost of removal of your furniture, etc., will be paid by the Education Department under certain conditions. These conditions, and instructions concerning removal expenses, are published regularly in the Education Gazette. Relevant extracts from this will be issued to students towards the end of their course.
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