Teachers’ College Council Upheld

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31089, 18 June 1966, Page 21

Teachers’ College Council Upheld

To settle proposals for a separate council for the Christchurch Teachers’ College, the Minister of Education (Mr Kinsella) will be asked to meet the Canterbury Education Board. Mrs C. C. Holland, chairman of the board’s professional committee, said yesterday that she was disturbed by statements of “alarmists.”

“We are trying to establish a new college at Ham with the amenities, oversight, and co-operation of the university in which the college may eventually have the same status as Lincoln College,” Mrs Holland said. Mr W. J. Cartwright said the board’s objectives in establishing a completelyintegrated college at Ham were perfectly clear. “We have adopted proposals for an independent teachers’ college council with representatives of this board, secondary school boards, the university, teachers’ organisations, and the Education Department,” said Mr Cartwright. “We considered this development so important that we held a special meeting and sent our proposals to the Minister last November. “We have the backing of the Commission of Education, the Public Expenditure Committee, and the university on this,” said Mr Cartwright “The fonper Vice-Chancellor (Dr. L. L. Pownall) called the

move ‘bold and imaginative.’ ‘The Press’ called it ‘wise and generous’ but one teachers’ organisation says the board is ‘stubborn’.” The chairman of the board (Mr A. S. Murray) said the Minister now had the views of all boards on teachers’ college councils. “We do trust that he will decide there is no heed for uniformity in pattern for the whole of New Zealand. We can have variety and imagination,” said Mr Murray.