Three Years’ Teaching Before Oversea Travel

Press, Volume C, Issue 29624, 21 September 1961, Page 14

Three Years’ Teaching Before Oversea Travel

Because many young teachers are travelling overseas before serving for three years “end are thus contributing to the serious shortage of staff in some districts,” the Education Department intends to inform overseas employing authorities whether a Jeacher travelling abroad has met “his or her obligation to teach for three years in New Zealand schools.” Teachers are being remihded that, when they applied for admission to the primary training division of teachers’ colleges, they each signed a “declaration of intention” to teach and a promise to serve for at leas) three years in this country “in return for the training and assistance from public funds that they receive." The department now says: “It is considered that teachers have an obligation to give this service immediately after certification and that, aprrt from this obligation, they would be better qualified to undertake employment when overseas if they had had a reasonable amount of teaching service in New Zealand before leaving. “When teachers seek teaching positions overseas, it is necessary for the department to supply details of their teaching qualifications to the overseas employing authorities,” the notice says. "It is customary for an employing

authority not to employ a teacher who has not met any obligation towards the teaching service in his own country.'' In the past the department has made no reference to the undertaking to teach for three years but in future it will report whether it has been complied with, the notice says.