SECONDARY EDUCATION.
INADEQUATE SALARIES OF TEACHERS.
WELLINGTON, May 22.
The annual conference of the Secondary School Assistants' Association opened today. The president (Mr J. Drummond), in his address, said that secondary education has not hitherto received the consideration which was due to it as the intermediate between primary and university education. Many university graduates now took up teaohing simply as a stopping-stone to other professions, and the profession .waa becoming less and less popular with men. A do* scheme of salaries waa urgently needed, and it was desirable that increments should depend upon reasonable conditions as to efficiency. Teachers had been oriticised for talking so much of salaries} but { in reply to this, he pointed out that until a satisfied band of teachers wa« assured the best results would not be achieved in education in New Zealand. Therefore, the association folt it necessary to secure a standard of salaries which would bring content, and induce the best men ana ■women to enter the teaching service.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3455, 1 June 1920, Page 49
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