TEACHERS TO TRAVEL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17497, 15 June 1920, Page 4

TEACHERS TO TRAVEL.

EXPERIENCE ABROAD.

4 MINISTER'S NEW SCHEME. BURSARIES TO BE GRANTED. [lit T2LEGRAPS.— ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON. Monday. The Minister for Education, the Hon. C. J. Parr, is having regulations prepared to provide for th* payment of travelling bursaries to primary school teachers. For the present the bursaries will bo only four per annum. "When the regulations come into effect," said the Minister,, "applications will be invited from teachers who desire this privilege. Education Boards will bo notified of this in due course, and the boards and the chief inspector of each district will report on each application before it comes to the Department. Teachers wijl require to state their academic attainments, with service and experience, schools visited in New Zealand, and any phase of education which they have studied and wish to investigate abroad. " Of course the Department will require somo adequate guarantee that the applicant will really devote his or her time abroad to educational matters, and a bond must bo given that he or she will teach in New Zealand for a given number of years after the completion of any such visit subsidised by the Department. We need to guard against the possibility of any teacher applicant merely making use of the Department's' offer to seenro a cheap holiday trip to Europe. _ 'The teacher must mean business, otherwise he need not'apply. I hope that this inexpensive departure will lead eventually to an interchange of teachers between the Homeland Canada, Australia, and perhaps the United States, and ourselves."