PAID IN WHEAT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22711, 25 October 1935, Page 10

PAID IN WHEAT

Teachers usually air their grievances during school holidays. Miss Olga Lipman, organising secretary of the International Federation of Teachers’ Associations, acted as official interpreter at the World Education Congress in Oxford, and these are some of the grumbles she “ interpreted ” to a Daily Express representative;—Hungary: Teachers’ pay “ envelopes ” in some parts of the country contain wheat, which they have to sell for what they can get. Iceland: Pay so inadequate that teachers have to do sparetime work as farm labourers. Conferences and lecture courses are arranged only with the utmost difficulty, attendance usually involving a long ski or horseback journey. Germany; Political or religious intolerance. Spain: Similar trembles to those of Germany. Said Miss Lipman, summing up: "Teachers in England are more fortunate than most of their colleagues throughout Europe.”