Teaching exchanges

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33815, 11 April 1975, Page 10

Teaching exchanges

M Secondary school teachers 'in Canterbury want more I exchanges between teachers ■ land lecturers in secondary) . teachers’ colleges. ) A meeting of the Canter-; : bury region of the Post-1 I Primary Teachers’ Associa-I )tion expressed the view that I once lecturers were appointed Jto teachers’ colleges they I found it hard to get out of I them and return to ordinary | teaching duties. The staffs of teachers’ colleges and teachers in the; ) schools were generally in) i favour of a greater degree of I Imovement between both sections of the secondary' teaching service, but it was difficult because of differing salary scales and the fact that teachers did not wish to get out of the mainstream of teaching by joining the staff ( of a teachers’ college. | Mr C. A. Wright, who is) j chairman of the teacher) (training advisory committee; iof the P.P.T.A., said that; • many of the country’s best! )teachers were reluctant to) apply' for lecturing positions: iin secondary teachers’ col-, j leges.