TEACHERS TO SPECIALISE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 66, 19 March 1925, Page 14

TEACHERS TO SPECIALISE.

NEW SYSTEM ANNOUNCED. SIR JAMES PARR'S ADVICE. After reviewing the facilities offered to young people to take up the teaching profession, Sir James Parr, Minister of Education, speaking at yesterday's ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the new Training College in Auckland, said he intended tightening up matters a little in regard to qualifications. Formerly the Department had been content to accept a teacher with a partial D certificate. For the future'the D certificate, matriculation or the leaving certificate from the Grammar School (indicating the completion of a four years' course there) would be required. Further he would ask that the D certificate be no longer accepted as tho leaving certificate from the Training College. It was too low, and in future the C certificate would be the absolute minimum. Sir James added that the time had come when they would require to go is: for specialisation at the Tralninc College. Teachers should be encouraged and expected to specialise in one subject, so that when they went out into big schools the subject in which each had specialised would be the subject each would teach. This, said Sir James, was the method adopted in the schools at Home.