STUDENT TEACHERS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 140, 16 June 1932, Page 6

STUDENT TEACHERS

NEW SCALE OF PAYMENTS WANGANUI OPINIONS There was brief discussion at the Wanganui Education Board meeting yesterday regarding student teachers, the Otago board writing to seek cooperation in a protest at the new scale of payments. It was stated that students who lived outside the centres in which the training colleges were located were each granted a ioan of £3O to par board, on the understanding that, from the first position held, the amount would be refunded. It was contended that this gave an unfair advantage to students living in the centres, or to those whose parents had means. Mr. M. H. Oram did not favour supporting the Otago protest. Whei. one got down to fundamentals, he said, there was no reason why the teaching profession should be on an* different basis to that of engineering, or the legal and medical profession* He believed th© department was quite in acting as it had done. Mr R. Dukeson thought the Otago boa id was taking the right step. The way the department had arranged things was giving one section an advantage over another. Mr J. Aitken: I am of the same opinion as Mr. Dukeson. He moved that, in the opinion of the loard, the proposed treatment of first-ytar students is unfair in the extreme. The DM> v «r said that these students had eh-sreu the training col 14ges on the understanding that they were to get two years’ training. There was no seconder for Mr. Ait ken’s motion and it lapsed, the board merely receiving the letter frorr Ctago.