CERTIFICATED TEACHERS LACKING.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 69, 23 March 1910, Page 3

CERTIFICATED TEACHERS LACKING.

■ ♦ DIFFICULTY IN COUNTRY SCHOOLS. In their annual repot t to tho Wellington Education Board, the iu*ncctor* lefcr to the transfer system oi appointments and its effect on country tchool*. "In lieu of advertising vaiatieies," they say, "the board has this year in several nis-tances availed itself in terms of the Act of the right of transferring teachers from school to school. In the interests of country schools it is advisable that for the future, this right of transfer should be more generally exercised. The board is year by year experiencing greater difficulty in finding suitable applicants for vacancies in touii. try school*. While a vacancy iv a city or suburban school will bring in twenty to thirty applications from experienced and certificated teacher", for a similar position in a country hchool, and advoitised at the mhup lime, there i* often not a slriulf certificated applicant. The transfer system is the only way to counteract this increasing dixinchnntion on tlie part of our teachers to take service in ttic lountry dUttitK Some definite plan of grndni<r teachers is, of course, ne»v»sary to render mr-Ii a policy effective^ I'nder some boards we notice that thi» is already done, but in the intererils of the tinnier system and of the teachctp themselves, we think il.i 1 . inadvisable that each board should havu if* own system of srac'inc. There should be one uniform i^etem tor the whole Dominion.' 1