EXAMINATION MARKING
Pay Ruling Reserved (N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, Feb. 7. Claims by teachers at a board of inquiry in Wellington that payment for School Certificate marking was unrealistic were denied by Mr J. L. Hunter when he presented the case for the Department of Education today. Mr Hunter said the Postprimary Teachers’ Association, which called for the inquiry, wanted an increase to 7s 6d for marking three-hour papers but, in the department’s view, the increase to 5s sanctioned in the 1961 review was adequate.
Mr .Hunter said the rates compared favourably with those for similar examinations overseas and for the University Entrance Examination in New Zealand.
The rates brought a return of £9O and more for parttime work spread over about three weeks to three weeks and a half as a maximum.
There was a case for investigation of the payment of different marking rates for different subjects, he said, as was common overseas. The department was prepared to make a detailed examination of this, said Mr Hunter. The adjudicating panel is Mr H. J. Thompson (chairman), Mr M. A. Bull, headmaster of Timaru Boys’ High School (representing the P.P.T.A.), and Mr F. R, G. Aitken (for the department). The panel reserved its decision.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30051, 8 February 1963, Page 6
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