STAFFING OF SCHOOLS

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12356, 28 January 1926, Page 4

STAFFING OF SCHOOLS

SUGGESTION TO DEPARTMENT STANDARDISATION OF BOOKS. Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, January 27. At the annual conference of the delegates from the School Committees Association of the South Island, the following remits were carried:—That it is not desirable that employment by the department of “married women teachers” whose husbands are able to support them be continued * here or when other teachers are available for appointment. That the department be asked to install where necessary up-to-date heating schemes in schools, and to pay the whole cost. That staffing of schools be based on the average roll number, and not on the average attendance. That an effort be made to secure rtandarisation of and cheaper school books. That where more than two applicants for any one position are within five marks of each other the names of all such applicants he sent on to the committees for selection. That in appointment o of probationers or etudent teachers the senior inspector be requested to give consideration to the special requirements of Btaffing of individual schools in dec?ding whether such appointments be male or female.