EMPLOYMENT OF TRAINING STUDENTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 144, 8 September 1927, Page 18

EMPLOYMENT OF TRAINING STUDENTS

POSITION EXPLAINED “A RE ail the training college x students placed now?” asked Mr. S. B. Simms at yesterday’s meeting of the Auckland Education Board. The assistant secretary, Mr. R. p. J. Ray, said that about 60 of them had substitute-assistant positions, which would give them employment until the end of the year. The chairman, Mr. A. Burns, said that this year the students would get probationary assistantships, which had been specially made for them. The department advised that all probationers who were qualified might be admitted to the training college next year. It did not intend to admit probationers from outside districts or any division B students, but it would consider, favourably, applications for admission of students of C. and D., approved by the senior inspector. The Department had authorised the appointment of 198 probationers in the Auckland district in 1928.

The chairman mentioned that last year 130 had been appointed. Regarding the classification and payment of ex-training college students acting as relieving students, the department advised that classification in grade A was not intended to refer to ex-students who had already had experience in permanent positions or who had established their standing on relieving staffs. It applied only to those who had just finished their course of training either as students or probationary assistants.

Mr. Burns said that a question had been raised in the House of Representatives about the classification. The board had been instructed to reduce the salaries of all ex-training college students, whether they had had permanent experience or not. The error had been made by the department and not by the board and it now had to be rectified.