PROMOTION OF TEACHERS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLII, Issue 9561, 22 July 1921, Page 5

PROMOTION OF TEACHERS.

.•••■•• :«■"■■■ .::■ . ■•'■ ■■■ i ••.■■• — . -^ ; — ; — CHANGE OF SYSTEM URGED. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, July 21. A deputation from the School Com- ' mittees' Association ' asked the MinisteV for Education, the Hon. C. J. \ Parr, to devise a change m the system of the promotion of teachers, so as to avoid the necessity for the constant changes which disturbed the ■work of a school. The deputation suggested a greater range of salaries so that teachers could be promoted J I without the necessity for transfer, or that transfers should; only, be, made at the end of the, year.. .-..,,,: ; n * j The Minister said wiiSr' impossible 1 Ito give effect to system which j meant increased 'expenditure' ion fealair- ' ies, which . now amounted- to £1,500,- \ 000. He thought thsat .-, someihing : i [might be done. ]by. fixing ..the ,; period s j which a teacher '■- >> ."imtiatr stay m a. } ! sohool before ob^inin^^'a transfer; as is already done m some? districts. He would also give coasideratiibn to the suggestion that ,iljraT?sfers should be [made at the '&im- of the ye»ar, and something nright'be done by reducing the number, of grades. !■ ■ • , ' }