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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23754, 28 September 1942, Page 4

Army Demand on Teachers Of 55 men who were admitted to the Dunedin Training College at the beginning of this year, only four will remain to complete the course next year, said Mr G. W. Carrington, secretary of the Otago Education Board, when discussing the effects on the training of teachers of the calling-up of youths of 18 years and the retention in camp of those between the ages of 18 and 21. All male students entered camp when they reached the age of 18, Mr Carrington said. Some had been attending the Training College for only two months. “This means that no young men are going into the teaching service at all," he said. The admission of a larger number of girls had given some relief, he added, but had not fully made up the deficiency. The only means of obtaining an increased number of girls as students, it was stated, was to admit those who merely had the matriculation qualification. Previously, students completed their post-matriculation year at the high school before entering the Training College, ,