TEACHERS

Grey River Argus, 21 September 1932, Page 5

TEACHERS

NO NEW PROBATIONERS. No probationer teachers will be appointed by the Education Department next year, according to an announcement in the Education Gazette. This will be th ■ second y r ar in succession tl\at the teaching profession hag been closed to young people- desiring to en. ter it. Tn the past about 90 secondary school pupils in Canterbury and Westland, and 500 in th? whole of the Dominion, have been able to get positions as probationers, serving one year in the schools before entering the training colleges. Thp Secretary of the Cant.-rbury Education Board (Mr C. It. Kirk) stated that when it was announced last year that no appointments of probationers would be made for 1932 if had been generally expected that the ban would apply for one year on’y. although there had be«n 110 definite announcement to that effect. /The original decision had been made, partly as a measure of ♦ conomy, ami partly* to ease the unemjdoyment amongst thos e already in the profession. The fact that no new trainees would be elitering the profes sio u for two years made it likely that there would b e a shortage of teachers at some future date.