TEACHERS’ APPOINTMENTS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIV, Issue 13890, 26 October 1905, Page 6

TEACHERS’ APPOINTMENTS.

The method of appointing teatehers which was embodied in tho Education Act Amendment BEI last .evening does not represent a very .great advance in, tho authority of the committees. As far as tho Worth Canterbury dMrict is concerned it means that these bodies ’will enjoy rather lees power than they are permitted to exercise .now. At present tho Education Board sands a list of approved applicants on 'to tho committee, and the committee chooses the one that pleases it best. Under the new law, if the approved applicants exceed four tho committee must select two from the list and leave the final appointment to the Of course, the present practice of accepting the nomination of tho committee is only a concession on the part of the Board, and probably it will be continued, but if tho Board insists upon its full rights the committee will net bo allowed to make tho final selection.. Mr Arnold, in moving Mr Sidoy’s amendment, evidently intended that the authority of the committee should ho greatly ineroaficd, but Mir Seddon(, very properly w© think, refused to take tho ultimate resporisibility off the shoulders of tho Board. The Board has special facilities for ascertaining the qualifications of teachers, and it would be extremely unwise to transfer this part of its duty to a less well-informed body.