PROMOTION OF TEACHERS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1769, 6 June 1913, Page 4

PROMOTION OF TEACHERS.

A NEW PROPOSAL. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Dunedin, Juno 5. At the afternoon session of the Otago Educational Institute, Mr. J. Kellj (Weston School) brought forwaid a scheme of salaries antl ™ teachers based on service and efliciencj. Ho proposed that young country. tejichois should begin with «£l5O, and vise by *5 yearly increments to X2GO, lrrospectivo of other appointments oe " ol V a PP°.! l ' tn^ l n 0 V female taichcrs should begin wil.i £ 1.0, and rise by similar increments to Salaries in town eliould rise from J. 130 to JEISO after which male teachers should spend three or fivo years in tho cw»ntr),. If he returned to town aB second <f>" s tont, his salary should then advanco to .S2GO, if as firs^fassistant, to J3OO. Fern*k town teachers should risol from .£IOO to AJ-u, no further advanco to bo made till she had spent two or three years in the country, after wliioh sjj o «bbl>s town as assistant at AloO or nustrcrf speakers approved Wily of tho principle) of the scheme, and was resolved to set up a committee to consider tho scheme and report to next quarterly meeting. Tim Tt was furthor resolved:— that tlio executive of tho New Zealand R iieationat Institute bo requested not to bring before the Minister for liducation any scliemo for tho payment of salaries on an average attendance, or averago roll j™"" ber until it lias considered some scheme based Oil other principles.