EDUCATION MATTERS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 27 January 1926, Page 9

EDUCATION MATTERS.

SCHOOL COMMITTEES’ REPRESELXTATI YES IN OONFEREINOE.

(bv TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.) DUNEDIN, Jan. 27.

At the annual conference of delegates representing the School Committees’ Association of the South Island the f°]1 owing remits were carried: —“That it i.s not desirable that the employment, by the Education Department, of married women teachers, whose husband are able to support them, should he continued where or when other teachers are available for appointment; that the Education Department be asked. to install, where' necessary, up-to-date heating schemes in schools, and to pay the whole cost; that the staffing of schools be based on the average attendance; that an effort he made to secure the standardisation of and cheaper school books; that where more than two applicants for any one [position are within live' marks of each other the names of all such applicants be «ent on to the committees For selection; that in the appointments of probationers or student teachers the' -senior inspector be requested to give consideration to the special requirements of the staffing of individual schools in deciding whether such appointments he male or female.”