Planning New Teachers’ College

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30856, 15 September 1965, Page 10

Planning New Teachers’ College

The Canterbury Education Board and the Education Department will soon begin talks on the over-all pattern of the “re-establishment” of the Christchurch Teachers’ College at Ham. When approval of the move and purchase of land were announced recently by the Minister of Education (Mr Kinsella) it was emphasised that a new secondary division would be the first stage but that the college as a whole would eventually move.

Although work will start soon on planning the multistorey secondary division, both the board and the department want to settle the pattern of the whole undertaking—what sections will be separated, what facilities will be shared, and how hostels can be provided on the site or nearby.

The arrangement of how the whole transition will be

made will also be reviewed. This involves consideration of the use of the present central site for the next few years, the availability of more space centrally when the secondary division moves to Ham, and the decision whether the Hagley Park motorway plan is adopted, cutting through the present property and possibly accelerating the need to move the whole college to Ham.

On top of all these purely local considerations the board and department must also consider the effects of the introduction of three years training for teachers. Concentrated attention on all these issues is expected at least to the end of this year.