TEACHERS’ CERTIFICATES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 12, 15 January 1932, Page 4

TEACHERS’ CERTIFICATES

NUMEROUS CHANGES MADE. EFFECT OF NEW REGULATION?. Numerous changes in the Rystem of teachers’ examinations for certificates under the Education Act are made by amended regulations just gazetted. The 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 is provided. This is on the lines of the D certificate examination and is of about the same standard. A. New Zealand university honours degree no longer entitles the holder to a teacher’s A certificate. It is provired 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 n 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 tho 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 amendments made in 1926 and subsequent ye-’-