Training College Roll Rises By Almost 100

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29746, 13 February 1962, Page 14

Training College Roll Rises By Almost 100

There are almost 100 more students attending the Canterbury Teachers’ College this year than last year, the principal (Mr G. Guy) said yesterday. Last year’s roll was 711, this year’s is 810.

To accommodate the additional students two new prefabricated buildings have been erected. The college now has six of these buildings. The number of students in Division A. those doing the first year of the primary course, is a record figure at 270. There are 221 doing the second year of the course. Of the third-year students. 13 are taking a speech therapy course, two a music course, and 10 a course in education of the deaf. Two of the students taking this course are from Malaya, as are two of those in Division A.

The latter two Malayan students will do a two-year primary course, and then a year’s course on the education of the deaf.

There is a special part of the Division A course for pupils over 25 with school certificate or better qualifications, and there are 17 students in this category from all over New Zealand. In the post-primary course. Division C, there are 191 students, another record figure. Of these, three are Colombo Plan students and three have been sent by the Fijian Government. There are also six students recruited in the United Kingdom for work in New Zealand. In Division D. a new division this year, there are six students taking a two-year post-primary course. There is also a special mathematics

and science ccuirse, with 20 first-year students and 13 second-year students. Twenty students are taking a homecraft course and 15 are taking a one-year woodwork course. There are 10 additions to the staff. New senior lecturers are Miss S. A. Balkind, M.A., senior lecturer in English in the post-primary department; Mr A. Cargo, M.A.. senior lecturer in education in the post-primary department; and Mr F. Carter, 8.A.. senior lecturer in physical education in the post-pri-mary department. Relieving senior lecturers are Mr W W. Brassington, M.A.. and Mrs D. M Shrimpton. M.A. New lecturers are Miss R. Bodie, M.A.. in charge of the education of the deaf section; Miss M. Gill, Mus. Bach., lecturer in education and music; and Mr C. J. Wright, 8.A., lecturer in education. Miss K. McKone, B.A. is relieving lecturer in English and Dr. J. Seabrook, Ph.D., is relieving lecturer in education.