Loans for Training College Students.
la Wellington yesterday the Hon. P. A. Wright, Minister of Education, gave the Education Institute details of a scheme by which students would In* able to enter the teaching profession without hardship to themselves or loss to the State. Anyone who had made up his mind to enter a training college would receive amplo warning so that if he did not approve of the new scheme lie would 'be able to take, up something else, he said. The expenditure on training colleges this year came to £123,000, a very largo.amount, which was the result of post-war conditions. The Minister explained that the new idea was that this system be replaced by making loans in advance- to students to carry them through their training, these loans to lie repaid by instalments when they became teachers. Tuition would be floe. This scheme would meet a number of difficulties the Department had to face.—P.A.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16340, 14 May 1927, Page 14
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