WORKLESS TEACHERS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 693, 19 June 1929, Page 14

WORKLESS TEACHERS

AUCKLAND POSITION COLLEGE BOND QUESTION The question o£ unemployed teachers is before the educational authorities. In response, to a departmental request for information, the Auckland Education Board is forwarding a letter stating that 32 male and 94 female ex-students of the Training College are not in permanent employment. At present, 11G ex-students are employed as temporary relieving teachers. Today, the * hoard received a departmental memorandum regarding the board’s suggestion that the requirements of the Training College bond should be amended in the direction of releasing an ex-student if, after a lapse of one year from the date of completion of his training, he has failed to obtain a permanent position, and stating that the department could not entertain such a proposal. The department said further that it anticipated that, in the near future, there should not be a greater number of ex-students than the number of vacancies in primary and secondary schools’ staffs. Mr. T. U. Wells mentioned that teachers from the South continued to seek engagement in the North. The I board’s difficulty was largely due to the influx of Southern teachers. The position could not be avoided owing to observance of the grading list, and eight Southern applicants had been appointed only this morning.