TRAINING OF TEACHERS

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 96, 20 October 1933, Page 11

TRAINING OF TEACHERS

STUDENTS INVITED

CRITICISM IN DUNEDIN

(By Telegraph.)

(Special to the "Evening Post.")

DUNEDIN, This Day.

At a meeting of the Dunedin Education Board the chairman, Mr. James Wallace, said that at the beginning of next year there would be between 1900 and 2000 teachers without, permanent work. Tho filling of .probationary ■assistant positions, and general relieving work, would- employ only between 900 antl 1000 daily. These facts must be known to the Department, and yet in this month's "Education Gazette" it was inviting applications from suitable applicants from all over New Zealand to become Division C students. The De^ partment offered to pay travelling expenses from Christehurch to Auckland and. oho return- torm-holiday faro in addition.' .' .

Perhaps sound reasons could bo advanced for the Department's action, he said, but on the facts available it looked like extravagance; to spend money ~on training "teachers next year whose services would not bo required for .at.least three years. Had the Government adopted the recommendation of the.Hou.se of Kepresentatives that tho training of teachers be continued uncler the' four University Colleges, 5t would have saved the country some £10,000 during the years 1933 and 1934. ■■ ...