Increased Payment To Examination Markers

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30171, 1 July 1963, Page 17

Increased Payment To Examination Markers

(New Zealand Press Association)

WELLINGTON. June 30.

Markers of papers for the 1963 School Certificate Examination will receive 6s for each three-hour paper and te 6d for each two-hour paper—a 20 per cent, increase on the existing rates of 5s and 3s 9d.

Government approval of these measures was announced yesterday by the Minister of Education (Mr Tennent).

A new scheme of payment for chief examiners recognised the special responsibilities involved in their work, said the Minister.

The new rates were as recommended by the Board of Inquiry, headed by Mr H. J. Thompson, S.M. (retired), which was set up last year by the Government to consider the adequacy of existing rates. University Entrance Increases in the fees payable to examiners and markers for the University Entrance, entrance scholarships and fine arts preliminary examinations were announced yesterday by the chairman of the University Grants committee (Dr. F. J. Llewellyn).

The new scale approved by the committee is: setting. £3O a paper; marking. University Entrance and Fine Arts preliminary, 7s a script; entrance scholarships, 8s a script. “The decision on School Certificate marking remedies an unjust situation which had seriously upset teachers throughout the country,” said the president of the Post-Primary Teachers’ Association, Mr S. H. Lee, today.

"The decision clearly recognises what teachers have long been aware of. that the existing rates of payment for School Certificate marking were quite inadequate. It also vindicates the firmness of the stand taken by teachers on this issue.”

Independent arbitration had resulted in the quick and amicable resolution of the dispute, Mr Lee added. Hie association will seek the report of the committee of inquiry "aa a guide toe the future.”

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