GLUT OF TEACHERS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 395, 2 January 1909, Page 13

GLUT OF TEACHERS.

MANY TRAINED WOMEN "WITHOUT ENGAGEMENTS. '

■ There appears to be no lessening-of. .uneni-' ployment among female school in England. : : 'In London -alono it is estimated that there.are now 400 female teachers unable to' find positions in the. County. Council schools. Girls who liavo spent a considerable sum of money on college training are gradually , drifting into .drapers' shops and offices where they oan earn just'enough: to live upon, : ■and .others:, have gono into: the provinces . assupplementary teachers: at' £20 a year.; - This matter is referred to by the London Teachers' . Association" in its annual report; "IriformatioiCpoints to; the fact;" says' the report, "that teachers" last year aro Still without permanent employment, arid it, is;.cprtainv.that many who'came .out of college' last ; July will- not be; able to obtain appointment ; for ■ some : months'. .to '\come, in Lqhdon or., .the provinces. - Under these circumstances, therefore, i the .committee feel that the. opening- of. the new,- train-: ing .colleges _by . the council/ which recently took-place, is a matter of-, the gravest, concern.;, It is' certain^that, in;two years', time the" glut of teachers .; in an" already overstocked ; ;market will , be than • ever,, ;and lit.' is" uhriecessjiry to state .that oirciim-' stances of that character demand tho utmost ..vigilance on the', part of a professional -or-i ganisation. ■ "The interests of mistresses particularly are involvod in this matter, for it is in their ranks that the\abriormal increase-'is most marked. • It is possiblo that for the first timo the question of the employment of married women 'teachers; may become a debatable matter iii London educational politics."