TRAINING OF TEACHERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20495, 21 February 1930, Page 11

TRAINING OF TEACHERS.

COLLEGE ENTRANCE JEST* TARANAKI BOARD'S PROTEST .!■•» *_ [BT TELTGEAPH. OVTK COEEESPOXDEKT.'] NEW PLYMOUTH, The new training college entrance examination, particularly as it affects probationers -wishing to enter training colleges at the end of the year, -was adversely commented on at a meeting of the Taranaki Education Board yesterday. The standard of the new examination is equal to that of the higher leaving certificate, and" a number of probationers appointed thiy year have not reached that standard. It was considered that if they had to reach that standard in all the subjects irequired in one year, as vrell as teach all day, their task would be exceedingly difficult, and that they -were being most unfairly treated. Up to the present, said Mr. J. A. Valentine, probationers' bad served one year under the board and then, if re com- - mended by the senior inspector ancb if i>r\ they had obtained the necessary -status, they had been admitted to the training colleges -without further test. Now the department vras insisting on the entrance examination. The standard set vras higher than that for the present D examination. A resolution was carried to the effect that if those at present holding matriculation only had to reach the higher leaving certificate standard in one, year they were being very harshly dealt with, a«od ■- that those appointed this year should not be required to do so.