EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 3461, 4 January 1901, Page 3

EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE.

s, • s, Per Press Association. is WELLINGTON, January 3. At to-day's sitting of the Educational Institute Conference, a debate took place on a- motion by Mr McNeil (Southland), 111 calling the attention of the Minister of ! S Education to the necessity for a better ie system of appointing and promoting teachers. Ultimately an amendment by Mr re L. Watson (North Canterbury) was carried, reaffirming last year's resolution that the present procedure of some Education Boards, -iir- debarring from, employnient in ;s - their districts teachers from other districts, J", is unjust ,and should be altered to prevent he the education system from becoming prohe vincialised. g; A resolution was passed that in amend-

tisg: the- powers: ofi sehoG?. e9ihmittees,, #(Sy. shoald be- more-- clearly defined,, and that the appointment of teachers should not t ! be= an® of-these-powers- - 3he Institute d*- : cided to urge the Council ef Victoria Colleger WeUington,. to establish-a Chair of laries of women teachers: diould be inbut the question, of equal pay for ! equal deferred, tilt the scale- of : salaries- eomes under discussaon. The that , teachers? salaries should bepaid- direct from the- Boards, to-teachers .was- affirmed. Another resolution, was I that it desirable, that teachers should 'be; represented, on Boards,, their- repre- • sentatives• not to be teachers-- in: the. Boards? employ:. The Conference- passed the; following j :resolutionse:i—(l) That this GomunL- reaf- ; finn the desirability of a. colonial scale'of i staffi and salaries. (2) That fo» each fully ■ • certificated teacher. a. minimum* salary be ; ; fixed. (3) That it is desirable: that tea- ; ichers- Be afforded facilities tor. arranging !exchanges- of. positions.. (4) That the i 'time: has no.w< arrived when, vacancies- in Ithe: should be filled- from, the '. ranks of- the teachers,, and that, teaching should be: taken into account eqpallj with '■ : culture in filling such, vacancies.. (5). That j a specials committee,, consisting of Messrs i : Hodge,. Flamark, Miss- Hooper>. and the .': Imovfir, be. appointed to take: into considera- ;! ■ tion question.- of' Bringing then Institute: ;: !under the/Industrial Conciliation, and Ar- ;] bitration Act. (6) That tha. Government r ;be asked; to make, provision for. the.- medi- . ] ;cal examination, but not necessarily the. '' i treatment-,, of any scholar whom: the. head : j ;teacher deems- afflicted. . il ; The superannuation committee.- reported ; s j that in its- opinion teachers, coidd obtain much, better terms- by joining, some exc .} istiUg; Insurance' Company than by at- ; j : tempting, to establish such a-, society of i ] I themselves. If, however, thei- Govern- ; j ment were; to- start some sehemee by malt'ing, a substantial grant, the. mutton would . | assume, a different phase. Thiet Institute ' "also conwdiered » motion,- declaring that f. | for all positiians. salaries- should be alibi/ ( 1 ted having, regard, to thft kapertaacQ; of tha | work'and not to sex, but, at the-suggestion . of the: president, the jjteviotts question was. ! i c»<ried-,. and th& motuin. shdyedv. | <