CLASSIFICATION OF TEACHERS. AN AUCKLAND REGULATION. (From Our Own Corrspnedeont.) Auckland, February 10.

Otago Witness, Issue 2242, 18 February 1897, Page 65

CLASSIFICATION OF TEACHERS. AN AUCKLAND REGULATION. (From Our Own Corrspnedeont.) Auckland, February 10.

At the Board of Education a report was adopted which will seriously affocb a majority of the senior teachers in the board's employ. It recommended that in fature no teacher of lower classification than 01, 82, or A 2 shall be eligible for appointment as the head master of any school having moi'e than 600 children in average attendance. The effect of this recommendation is to reduce to the second rank some of the most experienced and successful teachers in the board's employ, including two of its own inspectors, and to limit the choice for head masters of our chief schools to ten persons, two of whom have already charge of large schools, while others are comparatively young men of limited experience in the teaching profession. The Star Bays : " The new regulation is apparently an importation from Otago, but there the Board of Education has always adopted the very opporite policy from that pursued by the Auckland Board. Possessing an old-established university, every inducement has been held oat to teachers to avail themselves of it. Even this desire of the

board has not assumed the form either o( mania or injnstice, but the c'rief inspector ol Otago would be disqualified by the rale adopted by the Auckland Board of Education from appointment to any school having an attendance exceeding 600. When the Otago Board" decided upon raising the qualification for appointment to the large schools, it infused ( little common sense and fairness into its regu< lations. The matter is one which should engage the e»rly attention of the Educational Institute."

In England four convicts made a dash foi liberty at Christmastime— three from Dartmooi and one from Parkhurst, in the Isle of Wight. In the latter case the nun was recaptured the following day. In the former, the warders tired at the runaways, killing one and wounding another ; the third got away and spent three days, including Christmas and Boxing Days, at liberty.