Shortage of jobs
PA' Wellington Only 18 of the 139 kindergarten teachers who completed their training a fortnight ago have teaching positions in kindergartens, leaving 87 per cent of the graduates unemployed, according to the incoming president of the Teacher Trainees’ Association, Ms Alison Taylor. The figure was the highest recorded since the supernumerary scheme for placement of such people was
abolished. The association was “appalled,” she said. “We have been hearing, particularly over the last month, of the atrocious staffing levels in New Zealand kindergartens, two teachers being responsible for 80 boisterous pre-schoolers and yet there are 121 keen and enthusiastic, newly trained teachers looking for jobs. The situation is unacceptable, ludicrous, and totally unnecessary,” Ms Taylor said.
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Press, 18 December 1982, Page 6
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