SECONDARY SCHOOLS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume VII, Issue 1956, 22 May 1920, Page 6

SECONDARY SCHOOLS.

ASSISTANT TEACHERS' CONFERENCE. Press Association. WELLINGTON; May 22. The annual conference of the Secondary School Assistants' Association opened to-ijay. The president, Mr J. Drummond, in his address, said that secondary education had not hitherto received the consideration duo to it as the intermediary between primary and university education. Many university graduates now took up teaching simply as a stepping-stone to other professions, and the profession was becoming less and less popular with men. A Dominion scheme of salaries was urgently needed, and it was desirable that the increments should depend upon reasonable conditions as to efficiency. Tho teachers had been criticised for talking so much of salaries, but in reply to this, he pointed out that until a satisfied band of teachers was assured, tho best results would not be achieved in education in New Zealand. Therefore the association felt it necessary to secure a standard of salaries which would bring contentment, and induce the best men and women to enter tho service.