NEW REGULATIONS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 45, 2 December 1938, Page 3

NEW REGULATIONS.

TEACHERS’ GRADING AND SALARIES. MORE “MODEL” SCHOOLS. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Dec. 1. ? Regulations are issued with to-night s Gazette which affect schools throughout the Dominion and the Education Department generally. The first of these is an amendment to the training college regulations, which provides for the approval of certain schools as “model” schools, although they are not actually attached to normal schools. This step has been found necessary because of the large number of students in training, and the fact that model schools at normal schools have not been found adequate for the purpose. Another set of regulations issued is the [Education Boards’ Grants Regulations. In the Education Amendment Act, 1938, passed last session, provision was made for the payment of increased grants to education boards for general purposes, and for grants to school committees. The regulations now issued provide that grants for the year 1939 he based on the rolls ol public schools within different education board districts on 'September 1(5, 1938, the date on which the roll is taken for determining the stall's of public schools for next year. Recently teachers’ salaries regulations were issued, and these provided for a new scheme of staffs and salaries which affected nearly all teachers in different degrees. Under the scheme it is intended to devise a new grading group scheme, which will take some time to bring into effect, and it is proposed, in. the primary teachers’ grading regulations amendment, which was issTied with to-night’s Gazette, for the grading of primary school teachers in February next that they he classified in grading groups, according to the grade of salary which would have been payable to them under the old regulations. Another regulation deals with the examination and classification of teachers. This has been rendered necessary because the training college entrance examination was .recently abolished. This latter examination was a pre-re-quisite for the teachers Class C examination, and it included the subjects of history and geography. The amendments provide that these subjects shall be added to the list of compulsory subjects for the class O examination. The effect will not be to increase the number of subjects for this examination. as the amendment further provides that the number of optional subjects required to be passed has been reduced by two.