NEW SENIOR LECTURER

Press, Volume C, Issue 29466, 18 March 1961, Page 9

NEW SENIOR LECTURER

Mr C. J. Colbert To Teachers’ College Mr C. J. Colbert has been appointed senior lecturer in charge of division U (trainees on university studentships) at the Christchurch Teachers’ College. He succeeds Mr J. L. Hewland, who has joined - the post-primary inspectorate in the Education Department’s head office in Wellington. The position involves general supervision of studentship holders who attend university full time to accelerate their qualification for degrees and entry to postprimary teaching. The lecturer in charge gives tutorial assistance and provides a good deal of counselling. Mr Colbert, who is a history master at the Christchurch Boys’ High School, has been at the school for seven years. Born in Napier, Mr Colbert attended the Napier Boys’ High School. He graduated with honours in history from Victoria University College, Wellington, and served with the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force in Italy and Japan in 1945 and 1946. Later Mr Colbert worked in the war history branch of the Department of Internal Affairs. In 1949 he attended the Auckland Teachers’ College and then taught for a year at the Carterton District High School. He then visited Britain, where he taught in Surrey at the Woking Grammar School for Boys. When he returned to New Zealand at the end of 1953. Mr Colbert took up his position at the Christchurch Boys’ High School.