Teachers’ Training College Entrance Discussed

Northern Advocate, 10 May 1940, Page 7

Teachers’ Training College Entrance Discussed

[Per Press Association. Copyright.] WELLINGTON, This Day. The present method of selecting candidates for entry to teachers’ training colleges was discussed at the annual meeting in Wellington yesterday of the New Zealand Educational Institute. , After the delegates had expressed the view that the system was unsatisfactory, the following remit was carried: — “That the medical inspection of prospective training college students, and an interview by a selection committee, which shall consist of the senior inspector, the principal of the training college or his deputy, and one woman member, shall be held as early in the year as possible in order to enable a candidate who may be considered unsuitable to change his course.” The meeting decided also that the training of teachers should consist of a four-year c&urse, three years in training college and one year at a primary school, contributing intermediate or secondary schools. A remit that in the four main centres there be established associated schools for the training of student teachers, the staff to be specially selected and adequately paid, was also carried.

Czechs.—The first contingent of Czechoslovak volunteers left London today to join the reconstructed Czechoslovak Army in France. To the people who bade them farewell, they shouted: “We will meet in Prague.”