EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE CON- FERENCE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 86, 4 January 1908, Page 8

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE CONFERENCE.

IMPORTANT RECOMMENDATIONS. (BY TELEGItAFIl —rRKSS ASSOCIATION.) ! Auckland, January 3. Tho Now Zealand Educational Institute Conferenco to-day received tho report of tho Promotion Committee, which made recommendations for tho grouping of districts, a - Board of classification, right of appeal, >; methods of grading, and how vacancies snould bo filled. Tho C-ommitteo affirmed that > ; salaries should depend on tlio class of position" determined by tho working averago roll, number, not on tho average attendance; that tho scale of payment should be in keeping with that indicated in a table showing correlation ; of .classes, except that teachers 111 charge of ! Small schools should receive a higher salary ' iilian assistants in tho equivalent division;- [ jihat each division haro a fixed minimum salarj', to bo paid from appointment and thoreafter for, say, ten years, an annual increment until the maximum salary of that division is ■ reached; that provision should- bo made for a ; transfer of teachers whoso schools havo fallen below or have increased above tho division for which tho.salaries aro being paid; that • provision should bo mado' that no teacher : then employed should suffer a-reduction* of ' i salary /as a result of. tho introduction of tho ■ now system. _ ; - Tho promotion schemo was considered in committee. This stage of the discussion occupied the whole day, and is still'unfinished. Tho only material alteration mado in comi mittco was tho substitution of four for tho . fivo promotion districts proposed in tho re- ' port, tho boundaries of such four districts to ! bo co-tcrminous with thoso of tho university ! districts. Another amendment was mado ; providing that appeals against positions on 1 or omissions from tho promotion lists must bo mado through the district institutes. The proposed methods of-grading and filling vacancies were approved with a few verbal altcr- ; ations. Tho proposals in regard to classes i and divisions will bo discussed to-morrow, i Tho members of tho Institute wero enter- | tained .at To, Korero by tho lady teachers of } Auckland to-night.