THE TRAINING COLLEGE

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 24116, 27 November 1943, Page 6

THE TRAINING COLLEGE

ENTRANTS FOR NEXT YEAR PROPORTION OF MEN TO WOMEN ' The Canterbury Education Board has received a direction from the Education Department that only one-third of the quota of students admitted to the Teachers’ Training' College in 1944 are to be men. It is thought that this will not make a great deal of difference at the Training College in Christchurch, where the normal proportion of men to women entrants has always been roughly onethird to two-thirds. The ruling will mean that about 40 men may be admitted next year. When the matter was discussed by the Auckland Education Board, Mr W J Campbell safd that the restriction was not likely to have much effect next year. Eighty men can be admitted to the Auckland Training College and 107 have applied, but this number will be reduced by those unable to pass the educational and medical tests. Mr Campbell said he was strongly of o’" inion that candidates for training should be selected from those best qualified, irrespective of sex. At present, the board’s chief difficulty was filling vacancies for country schools where conditions were unsuitable for female teachers. PROTEST FROM HAWKE’S BAY “ The Press ” Special Service HASTINGS, November 25. A protest against the action of the Department of Education in directing that not more than one-third of its applicants for admission to the training college next year be men, was entered by the Hawke’s Bay Education Board, which will also obtain a legal opinion as to whether the department has authority to determine the percentage of men and women applying.