TEACHERS & TYPISTES

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 110, 3 February 1931, Page 9

TEACHERS & TYPISTES

Cost of Training

CONDITIONS CONTRASTED

Th-e fact that a girl deciding to enter the teaching profession will find the conditions much easier for her than they are for a girl intending to qualify for office Work has been the subject ofconsiderable comment of late (says the “New Zealand Herald”). Stated briefly the essence of the difference is that while the teacher is paid sufficient to support her throughout.the course of her training. the office girl has to pay for her training and to support herself at the same time before she can begin to earn her livelihood. Girls intending to become teachers start as probationers for one year, during whieb they were paid £BO, but this has now been reduced to £75. _ For two subsequent years at the training college they will receive £75 a year, and if they have to live away from home there is an additional £3O boarding allowance provided. Having finished at the training college, they serve for a year as probationary assistants at a salary of £13.), and after, that it'is open to them to apply for any positions that may become t vailable. Salaries in grade I range trom 1149 to £175, to which has to be added a grading increment, which may be about £oo. They may then continue to advance in position as they gain experience, some of the highest paid women teachers receiving over £350. The average girl who decides to qualify as a shorthand typiste will take classes for a little over a year at a cost of between £2O and £25 in fees. If she then secures employment in an office she will receive payment according to her ability and qualifications at rates ranging from £1 to 30/-. or even more, a week. Eventually she will receive £2 or £2/10/-, or, in individual cases, if she proves specially valuable to a firm and advances to executive responsibility, she may obtain a» much as £4 or £4/10/>