124 Teachers Coming, Ends U.K. Recruiting

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29897, 10 August 1962, Page 8

124 Teachers Coming, Ends U.K. Recruiting

(New Zealand Press Association)

WELLINGTON, August 8. Three R.N.Z.A.F. aircraft, carrying 116 British post-pri-mary teachers, are due at Auckland between August 28 and September 4. Another eight teachers will arrive in Wellington on August 27 in the Northern Star. This brings New Zealand’s teacher recruitment in the United Kingdom to 480, the Minister of Education (Mr Tennent) said today. It virtually completed the recruiting campaign. Eighty of the new arrivals were fully trained and well qualified teachers. 65 holding graduate qualifications. The other 36 were trainees who were all graduates, Mr Tennent said. Special Course After a special course during the third term this year they would take up teaching

posts at secondary schools at the beginning of 1963. They would be posted in small groups to one or other of a number of widely scattered schools specially selected. Both teachers and trainees would spend a period at a holding centre in Auckland before being sent to schools. They would be given short lectures on New Zealand life and the education system. Mr Tennent said a further small group of post-primary teachers would arrive under the present scheme in time for the opening of the 1963 school year.

“We shall still be able to get a small number of postprimary teachers from the United Kingdom after our present recruitment scheme ends through the co-opera-tion of the immigration authorities in New Zealand and London.”