Career guidance teachers in secondary schools
Schools with at least 250 pupils may receive an extra post for career guidance; 243 had such teachers in 1977–78, and the Minister does not plan to make their employment compulsory.
asked the Minister for Education the number of secondary schools which have full-time career guidance teachers, and if it is intended to make careers guidance teachers compulsory in every secondary school.
Comment on this
Secondary schools with an enrolment of 250 pupils or more are allowed one extra post over and above normal quota for a careers guidance teacher. During the 1977-78 school year, the latest for which statistics are available, 243 such schools had careers guidance teachers. Secondary schools are private institutions and the employment of teachers is a matter for the management of such schools. It is not intended to make careers guidance teachers, or any other specific category of teachers, compulsory in secondary schools.