TRAINING COLLEGES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13938, 21 December 1908, Page 8

TRAINING COLLEGES.

NEW REGULATIONS. CONTROL AND ORGANISATION. [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, Saturday. The control and organisation of. training colleges is the subject of new regulations which are to be. issued in a fow days by the Education Department. These provide that every training college shall have attached to it, for the purpose of giving opportunities for practical teaching work, a normal school constituted, as follows: — (a) A "main school," organised as an ordinary public school, with not more than 450 in average attendance, provided that no pupil teachers shall bo employed on the staff; (b) a model school, organised as an ordinary public school, under one sole teacher, or as a side school, with 35 to 40 children in average attendance; (c) secondary classes worked under the same conditions as to admission and programme of work as the secondary classes of a. district high school, but with an average "attendance not. exceeding 50. These classes shall be considered to be part of the main school. There may be added to the normal school, with the approval of the Minister, a junior kindergarten class, or classes containing not more than 40 children between the age's of three and five. The salary of the principal of a training college is to.be £500 a year or £600 where the principal is also the professor or lecturer on. education at the University College. Applicants for admission must have completed a course as pupil-teacher, passed the matriculation examination, and given satisfactory evidence* of their ability to teach. In regard to admission to any training college, no distinction shall be made between applicants residing within the education district and those residing outside the district. There are three divisions in which the students are to be classified, the allowances to those in division A being £30 per annum, with the fees of the University College classes, £30 in case the student is obliged to live away from home, or the actual cost of travelling, not exceeding £10 per annum. Similar payments are to be made to students of division B, except that the allawance is reduced to £10. No allowances except in special cases are to be paid to student* in division C. A student who receives allowances must enter into a bond to return the payments in case he shall fail to complete his course or fails to complete within the time prescribed such term of service as may be prescribed in a public primary, secondary, or technical school, or in any endowed School in New Zealand. AN AUCKLAND OPINION. FURTHER INFORMATION REQUIRED In a brief interview, Mr. H. A. Milnes, the principal of the Auckland Training College, said the new regulations contained several changes, though the information in the telegram was very meagre. As a result of them the Normal school, would have to be increased in size, so as to give more opportunity for practical teaching, and it would be necessary to add a kindergarten class or classes containing - not more than 40 children between the ages of three and five- ...-■"_ '-'•', "An ; pplication for permission to form such a class was recently made to the Department by the Auckland Kindergarten Association, continued Mr. Milnes. There are not enough details given in the telegram as to who is to teach this class, and what conditions are to be complied with by kindergarten students, etc. The statement t. - similar payments to ie made to students of division B, except that, the allowance is reduced to £10, is unintelligible a* quoted, and I do not know definitely what division Q students are. The portion of the new regulations which was awaited with interest was that referring; to the increased grant to be paid to division B," Kaid Mr. Milnes. "They now get £10 . a year, and University fees. There is no mention of any such increase, but as the oupil teachers are doomed under the new Education Act, in a few years all recruits to the profession must be division B students. Will they, have the same giants allowed as the present division A students/*"' " •