EDUCATION ACT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 10 February 1933, Page 5

EDUCATION ACT

AMENDING BILL (From “The Mail’s” Parliamentary Reporter). WELLINGTON, This Day, In the Education Act Amendment Bill provision is made for the payment of travelling expenses to boards of managers of any technical school. _ The section in the Main Act governing the appointment and transfer of teachers is amended to make it possible" for teachers to be transferred from one education board district to another. •-Transfers may be made where a teacher is receiving a salary higher than that of the grade of salary pertaining' to • the position occupied by him; where a teacher through no fault of his oivij litis lost his position or suffered a reduction in salary; where the conduct of any school appears to the board to require a transfer ; or where a teacher has signified his desire for a transfer. Boards may refuse to appoint any female married teacher, except one who has completed her course of training at a Training College, but not the term of service required by the regulations. The establishment and control of intermediate schools is provided for. Instead of employing the term “jViior high school” it. is intended to call these institutions “intermediate schools.” The organisation of the schools is to be altered slightly so that they can be made to fit in as an education unit between the primary schools and secondary aTid technical schools, The regulations will prescribe the number and grades or teachers to be employed, expenditure for the establishment, maintenance, and management, and the general control.. Special mention is made of Kowliai Junior High School, which is to be deemed to be an intermediate school. -