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In an article in Nature of June 22, 1946, the salary scales of teachers in technical schools in Great Britain were criticized in the following terms: “the very comprehensive character of the Burnham scales for technical teachers militates against their effectiveness in the realm of higher technology. The scales for technical teachers have, for reasons which it is not easy to understand, been closely tied to those applicable to teachers in primary and secondary schools. For the large majority of teachers in technical institutions they are in fact identical with them, and only in the provision of separate scales for heads of departments in technical colleges and the introduction of a senior assistant scale for a limited number of technical teachers do they differ from the school salaries. The scales are designed to cover the whole range of further education from the teachers in a small country technical institute to the lecturer in a major technical college, the junior lecturer in which, however advanced and important his work, may be on the same salary scale as the teacher in the smallest institution.”
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Teachers in Technical Colleges and Schools. Nature 160, 549–550 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160549a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/160549a0