WOMEN SCHOOL INSPECTORS
APPOINTMENT To BE MADE The Minister of Education (Sir James Parr) announced yesterday that in accordance with a promise made last year to the Women Teachers’ Association that when a vacancy occurred on the primary schools inspectorate, an opportunity would be griven for the appointment of a woman teacher, the Government had decided, as a matter of policy, to give women a clrtilce to shew what they could do as inspectors. As over two-thirds of the teachers in the New Zc/.land primary schools were women, it seemed only fair that women should have a chance to prove their ability the higher positions. The next vacancy for an inspector would be shortly advertised by the Public Service 'Commissioner, and applications would be confined . to women, in all parts of the Dominion, so that the position couEJ be filled in that manner. The Minister added that there were two vacancies for high school , inspectors—new offices which were just being created —and one of them would be given to a woman,
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 94, 15 January 1926, Page 8
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171WOMEN SCHOOL INSPECTORS Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 94, 15 January 1926, Page 8
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