TEACHERS' SALARIES.
The coming into operation of the Publio School Teachers' Salaries Act, says the annual report of the Education Department, renders necessary a considerable increase (over 400) in the adult staffs of tho schools, ,and a decrease <from about 960 to about 680) in the number of pupil teachers. Inasmuch as the number of suitable teachers, especially of male teachers, waiting for employment was probably not nt the time the Act came into operation sufficient to fill all the new posts, the immediate result may be a shortage of qualified teachers until the new system has had time to take effect. The inconveniences likely to be experienced meanwhile will be reduced to a minimum if the Boards will endeavour, as far as circumstances admit, to abstain from appointing male teachers to posts that could be filled equally well by mistresses, and if for a time the number of pupil teachers employed is somewhat m excess of the limit indicated in the Act, a variation of schedule — which tho Minister ha 9 tho power to allow until 31st December, 1903. Considering the radical nature of the change introduced by the Public School Tenchers' Salaries Act, tho Education Board and the Department are to be congratulated upon the fact that the new system ha 9 been brought in with almost perfect smoothness. To enable an easy transition to be made from the old system to the new some discretion was allowed to the Minister by the Act in regard to tho staffing of schools, and this power has been interpreted liberally, with a view to avoiding ttTLfdship to individual teachers, and while endeavour has been made to prevent such liberality from degenerating into extravagance, yet the unavoidable items referred to have
caused a considerable increase in the total expenditure. Further, as no provision was made in the Act for the cost of relieving teachers or substitutes in cases of sickness, an item has been placed on tho Estimates which, being at the rate of 6d per head per annum on the average School attendance, will, it is considered, amply meet the case.
TEACHERS' SALARIES.
Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue 47, 23 August 1902, Page 5
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