TEACHERS’ CERTIFICATES

Taranaki Daily News, 14 January 1932, Page 9

TEACHERS’ CERTIFICATES

NUMEROUS CHANGES MADE.

EFFECT OF NEW REGULATIONS. Numerous changes in the system of teachers’ examinations for certificates under the Education Act are made by amended regulations just gazetted. Jhe general tendency is to require more distinctly professional qualifications in the different classes. The D certificate examination having been abolished, a full prescription for a training college entrance examination >s provided. This is on the lines of the D certificate examination and is .of about the same standard. A New Zealand university honours de-, gree no longer entitles the holder to a teacher’s A . certificate: It is provided that an applicant must have either a bachelor’s degree, an honours pass without a degree, and must hold the diploma of education, or, in the alternative, he must hold a B certificate, have had 10 years’ “very good” or “excellent” service as a teacher, and must have submitted a meritorious thesis of original work in some approved educational subject. The qualifications for the B certificate include the C certificate and passes in certain subjects for the B.A. degree, or vice Versa. The C certificate ’ requirements apparently are not altered to any great extent. ’The new .regulations . consolidate or supersede a large number of amendment made in 1926 and subsequent years.