Teachers’ College
Sir,—Mr Kinsella announced recently that he was considering independent councils to run the teachers’ colleges. A decision to establish these councils is, I feel, long overdue. The greatest problem facing the teaching profession is status—public recognition that education services are valued, and a greater support for the many changes which must come in the future. The present lack of status among the profession must be corrected somewhere, and the easiest place to break the cycle is at the teachers* colleges. The proposed move should provide a necessary step In the right direction. The associated question of Independent primary and secondary colleges is less important, but the Government must come down firmly one way or the other. The present situation (separate at Auckland and combined at Christchurch) Is beyond all reason.—Yours, etc., GEOFF. ASHTON.
August 1, 1967. [The Minister of Education (Mr Kinsella) replies: “The question of the establishment of teachers* college councils and the associated question of the relationship between primary and secondary colleges and departments are matters on which negotiations are at present under way with the controlling authorities concerned.”]
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31441, 7 August 1967, Page 8
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