STATE SCHOOL TEACHERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 220, 14 September 1923, Page 6

STATE SCHOOL TEACHERS.

IMPROVED CONDITIONS GAZETTED. PROVISION FOR SICK PAY. Improved conditions regarding teachers' salaries in certain eases and regulations prescribing for better terms during sick leave are announced by the "Gazette" tonight. The regulation regarding sick pay is revoked and a new regulation issued providing for sick pay - at full rates as follows:—Under three months' service, one week; under six months, two weeks; under nine months, one month; to live years, one month; to ten years, two months; to 15 years, three months; to 23 years, four months; to ."..1 years, live months; over 35 years, ;i.\ months. In addition, sick pay for tl.e same periods is prescribed in the case of teachers with service over nine months. In connection with the recent establishment of the diploma of education, regulations are issued providing for examinations in the degree course, taking the place of those required for the certificate and for promotion of certificated teachers employed on the staff of junior high schools, who will be paid at slightly higher rates than they received at the primary schools from which they are to be recruited. Grades and groups will be as follows:— £650 to £700, grading group fl; £4.">0 to £500, group S; £100 to £4.")0, group 4; £320 to £350, group 3; £280 to £310. group 2. The regulation regarding the number of teachers granted exchanges with other countries is amended to limit the number to six. At present there nre about 2.5 teachers away on exchange. Those granted exchange will be allowed travelling bursaries equal to half the amount of passage money paid by the bursar between terminal ports up to £50, together with full salary for a period not exceeding two months, with half salary for an additional period not exceeding one month during the time the bursar is unemployed outside New Zealand. An anomaly in the regulation regarding free places in secondary schools is now removed. Hitherto a candidate had to leave on attaining his seventeenth birthday. Now he may remain until the end of the same year in which his birthday occurs. This will get over another difficulty, for it'has been found under the previous regulation that a candidate often was unable to complete two years by the time he was 17, but had to retire after, say, IS months in a high school.