SCIENCE FACULTY

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12195, 21 July 1925, Page 4

SCIENCE FACULTY

INSUFFICIENT STAFF DIFFICULTY OF TRAINING TEACHERS. Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, July 20. The University Commission this morning heard Professor Strong, Dean of the Home Science Faculty. She stated that better high school preparation was necessary for It did not carry girls to the standard at which students normally began work for a degree, so that the home science course had to include elementary teaching properly belonging to the secondary school. In order to provide development of the extension teaching, one full-time lecturer was required, assisted by a part-time expert. The staff also roquired supplementing for teacher training by an assistant. For supervision of the practice of teaching a new hostel was needed, with individual rooms for seventy-five or a hundred students. A dean, a woman, should be unpointed to attend to the welfare of all women students. The.first aim of the school was to train teachers. At present they were unable to supply those required. In reply to Mr Tate, witness said that most who had gone through the degree course had had bursaries. Mr Tate suggested that instead of more money being asked for bursaries, it should be spent in providing more teachers and development of the faculty.