SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS

Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27705, 8 July 1955, Page 12

SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS

REMITS APPROVED BY CONFERENCE

(New Zealand Press Association) „ ... . AUCKLAND, July 7. calling for “more incentive to create ambition,” the chairman of the n™ H ,. Z f alan . d t . Secondary Schools Boards Association (Mr O. Conibear) k- c ° nfere , nc ? at Auckland, pleaded for higher salaries for the more senior secondary school teachers “if we are to hold them.

.i,T h v J COn , fcrcnc s. decided to inform ■“? Educatmn Department and the Minister of Education “that there is not sufficient differentiation between salaries paid to senior and junior staff s b ” rS ° f secondar y school teaching

The conference also asked that there be ® substantial increase in the present qualification allowances. The present annual allowances. £lO for a bachelor’s degree. £2O for a master’s, £3O for a masters with honours, were described as miserable. The rate of boarding allowance for relieving teachers, it was agreed, should be reviewed, and university students training for postprimary teaching should bt given an allowance equal to that paid to students training in the training colleges for primary school teaching. It was decided to ask the Health DeP„ a Z tm , ent u to investigate the milk-in-schools scheme.

The conference declined to consider motions on the questions of State aid to private schools and religious inin State post-primary schools