Teachers Recruited In Britain

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31993, 21 May 1969, Page 30

Teachers Recruited In Britain

(New Zealand Press Association)

PALMERSTON NORTH, May 20.

The Department of Education’s recruitment drive for secondary schoolteachers in the United Kingdom was meeting outstanding success, the Minister of Education (Mr Kinsella) said in a statement issued in Palmerston North today.

Although the campaign had started only four months and a half ago. the department’s recruitment officer in London had already obtained 64 wellqualified persons to serve in secondary schools in New Zealand. “This ts just under half the planned annual quota of 130.” Mr Kinsella said. The officer, Mr J. C. Wilson, had received more than 1000 inquiries. Fifty-one teachers had been appointed to positions in schools, and 13 were graduate trainees who would do a one-term special training course before being appointed to schools. "I am most pleased that 24 of the 64 recruits are teachers of either mathematics or science and that 12 are English teachers. These are the subjects in which we have the greatest shortage,” Mr Kinsella said.

“This is the first year of a I five-year campaign in which i we hope to recruit 130 teachi ers annually,” he said. The ■ results so far indicated that i there would be little difficulty ■ in reaching the target. Three teachers had already ■ arrived in New Zealand. ' Seven were due to arrive by the end of the month, 37 , would arrive in time for the I third term, and 17 would ; arrive in time for the first • term next year. ! Mr Kinsella said a record I 3220 students were in train- ’ ing in New Zealand for I secondary teaching, compared with 3097 last year. ! The intake to primary • teachers’ colleges in January, • plus an additional 30 men re- ( cruited in March, meant that s the quota of 2450 had been . filled. This had made possible ' a better balance between ' future men and women teachers.