TRAINING COLLEGES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22941, 20 January 1938, Page 13

TRAINING COLLEGES

THIRD-YEAR STUDENTS

DEPARTMENT'S PROPOSAL REFUNDING LOAN MONEY A decision to give further consideration to the matter of additional training to students who left training college at the end of 1936 was contained in a letter from the Education Department referred to the meeting of the Auckland Education Board yesterday. The board was requested to communicate with all such students in the Auckland district, the majority of whom would have been probationary teachers in 1937, 'asking them to submit, if they wished, application to the department to bo considered for third-year studentship. . . The department advised that thirdyear students would be paid £lO per annum in addition to the usual allowances made to training college stijdents. It was also stated that approval had been given for a refund to all ex-students of training college, who had completed their training, of any amount repaid by them oil account of boarding allowance loan received during studentship. As cases were so few and the locations so varied the refunds would be made through the Treasury Department, direct to the cx-students. The acting-chairman, the Hon. A. Burns, M.L.C., said that at one time students who required it could obtain a loan of £4O for board. It was to those students who had repaid the loans that the refund would be made.