IMPROVED QUALIFICATIONS. a. Teachers who improve their qualification(s) shall, on the effective date of improving the qualification(s), move to the step in the appropriate scale corresponding to their current salary rate in the lower scale. Where their current salary rate is lower than the entry step for the new (improved) qualification group, they shall be placed on the applicable entry step. The effective date of improvement of qualification(s) to a higher group in this situation is: i. where qualifications are improved at the end of the academic year β the commencing date of the first term of the following year; or ii. where qualifications are improved during an academic year β the date of official results.
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