TRAINING TEACHERS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 28 September 1934, Page 5

TRAINING TEACHERS

CHRISTCHURCH AND WELLING* TON COLLEGES - - ~ TO RE-OPEN NEXT. YEAR' 77 :( (By Telegraph) ’ •> (From “The Mail’s”- Parliamentary'Reporter) i * WELLINGTON, 27th September. ■' ;; The Christchurch and Auckland. !; Teachers Training Colleges will re-open-] '< at tlie beginning of next year, accord-!.' ing to a statement made by the lipn. ;; Mr Masters to-night. . Two hundred - students from division- A (two year!! , course) and a few selected University , “ students division C (one year course) , • will be admitted to each college. 77 ,! 11

Tlie Minister said.no limit would be 1 ■ set on age or date of qualification i'ofi! | Division A students, but applicantsmust have obtained a pass or partial pass in the training college entrance • examination., . . .. 1 1

Division C students must be gradu--; ates, and as nearly as possible, half of . each division would he men. " •

Each education district would supply its quota of Division-A students and]' each University district its quota of. Division C students. “I have given careful consideration to the employment of probationers and;, , I have decided that, in future, no such ■ ■■ appointments will he made” added the)! I', Minister. He said that at the end of •> their college period students of bbfhll divisions would be attached to schools os probationary assistants to , receive 1 further training in teaching and classmanagement prior to issue of their certificates. No Division B (paying) or Division, (short period) students would he ad-; mitted to training. The Minister said that the scheme for rationing work am on a: teachers would--he continued during "1935 and 193.6, but 7"' at the beginning of 1937, a, return would be made to conditions obtaining 77 before the "adoption of the rationing - celieme. (.