EDUCATION REGULATIONS

Evening Star, Issue 23130, 2 December 1938, Page 12

EDUCATION REGULATIONS

IMPLEMENTING AMENDING LEGISLATION [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, December 1. A number of regulations are issued with to-night’s 1 Gazette ’ which affect schools throughout the Dominion and the Education Department generally. The first of these is an amendment to the training college regulations which provide for the approval of certain schools as “ model ” schools, although they are not actually attached to normal schools. This step has been found necessary because of the large number of students in training, and the fact that model schools at normal schools have not been found adequate for the purpose. Another set of regulations issued is the Education Boards’ Grants Regulations. In the Education Amendment Act, 1938, passed last session, provision was made for the payment of increased grants to education boards for general purposes, and for grants to school committees. The regulations now issued provide that grants for the year 1939 shall be based on the rolls of the public schools within the different education board districts on September 16, 1938, the date on which the roll is taken for determining the staffs of public schools for next year. Recently the teachers salaries’ regulations were passed, and these provided for a new scheme of staffs and salaries which affected nearly all the teachers in the different degrees. Under the scheme it is intended to devise a new grading group scheme, which will take some time to bring into effect, and it is proposed in the primary teachers’ grading regulations amendment which was issued with tonightls ‘ Gazette ’ that for the grading of primary school teachers in February next they shall he classified in grading groups according to the grade of salary which would have been payable to them under tho old regulations.

Another regulation deals with the examination and classification of teachers. This has been rendered necessary because the training college entrance examination was recently abolished. This latter examination was the prerequisite for the teachers’ C class examination, and it included tho subjects of history and geography. The amendments provide that these subjects shall be added to the list of compulsory subjects for the class C examination. The effect will not ho to increase the number of subjects for this examination, as the amendment further provides that the number of optional subjects required to he passed has been reduced by two.