TRAINING OF TEACHERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15521, 31 January 1914, Page 10

TRAINING OF TEACHERS.

TRAVELLING SCHOLARSHIPS. OPINION OF EDUCATIONALIST. [BT ' TELEGRAPH.— COBBESPONMNT.] Wanganui, Friday. With reference to a suggestion from the Auckland Educational Institute regarding travelling scholarships in education, Mr. G. D. Braik, director of education, reported to Thursday's meeting of the Wanganui Education Board as follows :— " It appears to me that the scheme of the institute provides rather for a reward for efficiency, zeal, and service than for a scholarship, strictly so called. Efficiency and zeal merit recognition, and, so far, the institute scheme deserves support. Education scholarships should, I think, be awarded to young persons, men or women, who have been Successful pupil-teachers and successful Training College and university students, and who aim to make teaching their life's work. Before holding a travelling scholarship in education a student should be required to teach for a period of, say, five years, and in return for the scholarship would be required to fulfil definite obligations in the investigation of prescribed spheres of educational activity The student should further be required to present a report to the Minister for Education on his return to the Dominion, and then to resume his educational work, • Such scholarships would be of material an lasting benefit, and would do much to place the teaching work and status on a hieher plane than they now occupy.".