TEACHERS’ COLLEGE

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29800, 17 April 1962, Page 17

TEACHERS’ COLLEGE

Site On North Shore (N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON. April 16. The Minister of Education (Mr Tennent) today approved establishment of a new teachers’ training college at North Shore. Auckland. It will be the eighth in New Zealand and will provide accommodation for 450 students. Mr Tennent authorised preparation of plans and said negotiations to procure a site would be opened immediately.

The new college would relieve Auckland’s present colleges which were already overcrowded, he said. As well, it would allow full advantage to be taken of the Government’s plans for increasing teacher recruitment.

Mr Tennent said approval had already been given to construct permanent buildings at Hamilton and to prepare plans for a new college at Karori, Wellington, but even with these new establishments it would not be possible to cater for all the student teachers in 1966. The new college in Auckland should be opened by that date. “A great deal of detailed investigation has been made into the future needs of the teaching service,” Mr Tennent said. “The fact that approval has been given to three new projects should be evidence that the Government is fully alive to the situation, and prepared to do what is necessary to ensure an adequate supply of teachers for the future.”