TEACHERS’ WORK
Clerical Relief Sought
“Teachers and headmasters must be further relieved of their clerical and non-teach-ing tasks, which divert their attention from essential educational functions for which they have been specially trained,” Mr L. R. Hercus, of Otago, told a meeting of the Dominion executive of the Educational Institute yesterday. Ancillary staffing in schools was being discussed. That could be done by the more liberal provision of teachers’ aides and by increasing the availability of clerical assistance in schools. The institute had pressed on several occasions for the release of the report of the committee on ancillary staffing, established by the Government after a recommendation of the Curry Commission in 1962. and hoped that the report would pave the way to urgently needed increase; in all forms of ancillary staffing in schools. “In schools where there are larger than usual numbers of relatively inexperienced teachers the need for increased ancillary assistance is even more evident," said Mr Hercus.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30962, 19 January 1966, Page 16
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159TEACHERS’ WORK Press, Volume CV, Issue 30962, 19 January 1966, Page 16
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