"GRAVE CONCERN."

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 114, 17 May 1933, Page 8

"GRAVE CONCERN."

ACUTE POSITION. TEACHERS OUT OF WORK. REPORT TO MINISTER. "The board is gravely concerned at tlic very considerable and increasing number of ex-students of tho Training , College who arc unable to obtain employment," says the chairman of the Auckland Education Board, Mr. T. U. Wells, in a report prepared for the Minister of Education. The report states that at the beginning of last year there were over r>oo ex-students awaiting employment, and there appeared little prospect of the position being relieved for sonic time. J n view of the very acute position that had arisen, the board had co-operated in the scheme instituted by the Department for the rationing of employment among the ex-students of the Training College. The scheme, of course, had its disadvantages, owing to the changes in tho relieving teachers employed at schools. During last year employment as relieving teachers had benn given only to ex-students of the Training College, of whom 00 per cent had received temporary work for at least two terms.

''The board regrets, however, that under the rationing scheme it was not possible to give a full year's employment as probationary assistants to those students who completed their course at the Training College at the end of 1031. 'Such employment was given to ex-students in previous years and was regarded as their linal year of training."