“MODEL” SCHOOLS

Southland Times, Issue 23681, 2 December 1938, Page 6

“MODEL” SCHOOLS

NEW PROVISIONS FOR APPROVAL REGULATIONS FOR GRANTS (United Press Association) WELLINGTON, December 1. Several regulations are issued with tonight’s Gazette which affect schools throughout the Dominion and the Education Department generally. The first of these is an amendment to the training college regulations which provides for approval of certain schools as “model” schools, although they are not actually attached to normal schools, This step has been found necessary because of the large number of students in training and the fact that “model” schools at normal schools have not been found adequate for the purpose. Another set of regulations issued is the Education Board's Grants Regulations. In the Education Amendment AcJ 1938 passed last session provision was made for payment of increased grants to education boards for general purposes and for grants to school committees. The regulations now issued provide that grants for the year 1939 should be based on the rolls of public schools within the different education board districts on September 16, 1938, the date on which the roll is taken for determining staffs of public schools for the next year. Recently teachers’ salaries regulations were passed and these provided for a new scheme of staffs and salaries which affected nearly all teachers in different degrees under the scheme. It is intended to devise a new grading group scheme which will take some time to bring into effect and it is proposed in the Primary Teachers’ Grading Regulations Amendment, which issued with tonight’s Gazette, that for the grading of primary school teachers in February next that they be classified in grading groups according to the grade of salary which would have been payable to them under the old regulations. Another regulation deals with the examination and classification of teachers. This has been made necessary because the training college entrance examination was a pre-requisite for the teachers’ Class C examination and it included the subjects of history and geography. The amendments provide that these subjects shall be added to the list of compulsory subjects for the Class C examination. The effect will not be to increase the number of subjects for this examination, as the amendment further provides that the number of optional subjects required to be passed has been reduced by two.