HOPE TO RELIEVE N.Z. SHORTAGE OF TEACHERS
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, May 9. To relieve the immediate shortage of teachers in New Zealand the Education Department intends to start an emergency training scheme at the five training colleges. This was announced by the Minister of Education, Mr. T. H. McCombs, in addressing the conference of the New Zealand Education Institute. There was an estimated shortage in the Dominion of about 50 teachers, he said,. and the deficiency would grow during the year as more children were enrolled and teachers left for one reason or another. The scheme would be an intensive one-year course limited to promising persons over 20 years of age. An appeal would also be made to married women teachers and superannuitants to offer their services, even on a part-time basis in districts where the shortage was acute. Other measures mentioned by the Minister included asking teachers to postpone requests for extended leave and shortening the probationary period for a certain proportion of students. Mr. McCombs said that 50 per cent more teachers were now in training than in 1945.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22942, 10 May 1949, Page 6
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