Shortage Of Teachers
AUCKLAND, Thu. (P.A.)—To meet staffing requirements, one of every five pupils passing for school certificates this year would have to become a teacher, said the Minister of Education (Mr McCombs), speaking at the final assembly for the year of Ardmore Teachers’ College. This was because young teachers could be taken only from the group born in the early 19305, when the birthrate in New Zealand was the lowest in history. “We are about to enter a period of very rapid expansion in the size of schools,” Mr McCombs said. “In 1952 primary schools will have a 30 per cent higher roll than last year,/and the number of infants will be 50 per cent greater. “We must provide 2000 more classrooms —also teachers for them.”
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Northern Advocate, 9 December 1948, Page 8
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