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College Increase Plan

During the next five years the average annual increase in teachers’ college accommodation, including hostels, will roughly equal four colleges the size of the Hamilton Teachers’ College, says a statement from the Department of Education. Projects in a £lom building programme for teachers’ colleges for the years, 1965-69 are at various stages of consultation, approval, planning and erection. Between 1966 and 1971 the number of students training to become primary school teachers will Increase from 4450 to about 7750. All the teachers' colleges are expected to have about 1000 students by the early 1970 s and there will be about 1500 students at the larger colleges by the mid-19705.

Hamilton Teachers’ College opened last year and North Shore and Wellington Teachers’ Colleges will open this year and in 1968 respectively. They were designed to take 500 students, but additions are planned that will enable the colleges ultimately to admit 1500. * Considerable increases are planned in the number of trainee teachers for secondary schools and the building programme will include additional accommodation at the Auckland Secondary Teachers’ College and in the PostPrimary Division of Christchurch Teachers’ College.

Students who were admitted to the Hamilton and Dunedin Teachers’ Colleges in February were the first in New Zealand to begin the threeyear course of training. The longer courses will be introduce.d at the Christchurch and Ardmore Teachers’ Colleges next year, at Auckland and Wellington Teachers’ Colleges in 1968, and at Palmerston

North and North Shore Teachers’ Colleges in 1969. Important Decision

“The first of these students, about 550 will begin teaching in 1969, and by 1972 all primary teachers entering the service will have completed a three-year course of professional training. The decision to lengthen the training course was the most Important single decision that has been made in the training of teachers since the national system of teacher training was introduced 60 years ago,” the statement says. "The three-year course will enable student teachers to enter schools much better equipped with the knowledge and skill required for effective teaching under modern conditions. The main aim is to help them develop the persona! qualities and attitudes of mind that are necessary for effective teaching in the primary school.” The Department of Education also had special training courses for other highly qualified persons who wanted to become teachers. Most of them prepared for the secondary service, but some took a one-year course for primary teaching. Three Parts The three-year primary course comprised three parts, English; professional studies in the theory of education, child development, educational psychology, the subjects of the school curriculum, and practical training in the schools; and subjects studied mainly to further the student’s own education. An innovation in training primary school teachers was the three-year course started this year for Hamilton Teachers’ College students at the University of Waikato for a diploma in teaching. Some of the students there will have a fourth year of study for a degree in education. The academic qualifications of the students admitted for training as teachers were

rising each year. Selection committees were now able to give more consideration to candidates' personal qualities because more were seeking admission to the teachers* colleges, the statement says. Studentships

Student teachers with university entrance had always been encouraged to study for a degree as part of their training course. The teachers’ university studentship which had been introduced recently enabled selected students to begin university studies under much more favourable conditions.

Students could apply for the studentship before or after they entered a teachers' college. Those who were awarded studentships became full-time university students and. if successful, could later apply to have the term of the studentship extended. The studentship scheme would ultimately increase the full-time university study by teachers* college students, particularly those in the second and third year of their training. The students would then return to their teachers’ colleges for a final year.

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https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19660607.2.200

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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31079, 7 June 1966, Page 19

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College Increase Plan Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31079, 7 June 1966, Page 19

College Increase Plan Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31079, 7 June 1966, Page 19

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