STUDENT TEACHERS

Taranaki Daily News, 16 October 1934, Page 5

STUDENT TEACHERS

LIVING AWAY FROM HOME. LOAN FOR BOARDING. The position of teachers who will have to attend the training colleges at Auckland and Christchurch next year, and who will be granted a boarding loan of £4O a year, was the subject of representations made to the Minister of Education, Hon. R. Masters, recently by T'r. F. Jones (Lab., Dunedin South). Mr. Jones mentioned the possibili I' of having students trained as teachers in the • four university colleges and pointed to disadvantages that Dunedin and Wellington students would suffer in living away from, their homes. All they were to receive was a £2O bursary and a loan of £4O a year. This sum, it was contended, was not sufficient to live on. Moreover, at the end of their training these students would be faced with a liability in having to repay the loan money. Students living at Christchurch and Auckland were able to live with their parents. They received the £2O bursary and had no accumulating liability. The Minister in his reply to Mr. Jones says he has given careful consideration to the scheme for university training for teachers. He had come to the conclusion that what was proposed by the professors of education would not give as good a training, especially in _ the non-university subjects, as that given by the existing staffs of the Christchurch and Auckland training colleges. ■ “What you say in regard to students from Dunedin being placed at a disadvantage as compared with students hying in Christchurch,” the Minister adds, “applied when there were four colleges to students whose homes were m education districts where there was no university college. Further, if teachertraining were handed over to the university colleges, Otago students whose homes wer° not in Dunedin would be in the same position as they are now in regard ot the £4O loan for lodging allowance.”.., " '