Increased Education Expenditure From 1960

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28983, 26 August 1959, Page 14

Increased Education Expenditure From 1960

(New Zealand Press Association)

WELLINGTON, August 25. I Large increases in education 1 ' expenditure will be needed to provide for the “unprecedented”) numbers of students who will! flow into secondary schools and i universities in the next decade. | from 1960. says a White Paper on' School Roll Numbers presented to Parliament today. “This period will see not onlyvery large increases throughout the school system, but also unprecedented numbers of students in j the higher forms of our post-; primary schools, in institutions of; senior technical education and.; above all. the universities. “A great and sustained effort; will be needed to provide for! these numbers at the top end of. the education system, and to en-! sure that the quality of educa-i tion is fully maintained at all, levels. ‘‘The New Zealand community has long insisted on the principle; that young people should have; wide opportunities for education; at the higher levels. “It is abundantly clear that, if opportunities are not to be restricted, or educational standards sacrificed, the community must be prepared to give its support to large increases in expenditure on education. There is no escape from this conclusion and the main i purpose of this paper is to make it more generally known.” New Zealand is now on the eve; of a very rapid expansion ofj student enrolments in the uni-| versifies, according to the paper i Between 1952 and 1958, numbers! grew from 9751 to 11.910. By I 1963, they are expected to reach! between 17.000 and 18.000 and by. 1972. 30.000 or more. In the period from 1952 to 1972, univer-■ sity enrolment will probably j have trebled. The sharpest in-; creases in the number of students! will take place from the middle; sixties. In the next 14 years, the paper; estimates, the primary schools I must accommodate 123.000 addi-i tional pupils and the post-primary | schools another 70.000. Of these; additional numbers, however.: primary schools will have to provide for only 50.000 in the next, seven years, while the post-1 primary schools, which will then; have trebled their rolls between ' 1944 and 1965. must be prepared,; in the next seven years, to accom-; modate an additional 42,000. i - I

I “In the next seven years, then, n the increase in primary school 0 enrolment will not be as rapid as Jit has been in the last seven j years, nor as rapid as it must be 11 expected to be again in the period d I from 1965 to 1972. i. “The somewhat reduced presn Jsure for additional accommodad tion in the immediate short run therefore, presents an opportunity y for at least achieving some reduct tion in the size of the primary - school classes, and for making n more rapid progress in the re--Iplacement of obsolete buildings.” f Assuming present stalling I-j ratios are maintained, the number lof primary school teachers needed t'w'l! grow from 10.485 this year • to 13.740 in 1972. In the postal primary schools, the numbers ' needed will leap from 4770 this "ivear to 8060 in 1972. .ir