PAYMENT OF TEACHERS. [BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, 9th August.

Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 35, 10 August 1905, Page 5

PAYMENT OF TEACHERS. [BY TELEGRAPH — PRESS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, 9th August.

Afc a meeting of the Board of Education the Wanganui Board's resolution on the basis of payment of teachers was considered. The inspectors reported that "the resolution 'in question is so condensed and obscure that the inspectors have not been able to gam any clear idea of the arrangements it is intended to recommend. There is, however, substantial agreement as to the two follow ing points: (1) The grading or classification as at present arranged could not be made to form a satisfactory basis for fixing the salaries of teachers. (2) The inspectors approve fixing a minimum salary for each grade or classification, as a means of checking serious reductions in salary, consequent on declining attendances at particular schools. The proper remedy for the hardship that arises" from this cause would be the transfer of the teacher concerned to a larger school, but under the above arrangement Ilia salnry would .not be reduced below the minimum of his grade while he awaited transfer. The grading should bo revised at periodical intervals, for teachers in each grade should have to maintain- their skill at tht level shown by others placed in the same grade. Keal uniformity of grading would be by no means easy to hecure, for the standard applied in testing skill in teaching now varies pretty widely m 'different parts of the colony, and is likely to continue to do no,"