SOLDIER TEACHERS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 284, 20 August 1918, Page 4

SOLDIER TEACHERS

SCHEME TO RETAIN THEM IN THE PROFESSION.

The proposal recently made by Mr. >T ; S. Tennant, director of the leachers Training College, for special treatment on their return from tho war for young men whose training, period as t£, :"v'. has been interrupted by ihe call ot their country was laid before tho Minister Education by a deputation of educationists which waited upon him yesterdaj. Mr. E. A. Wright, M.P., introduced tho deputation. , Mr. Tennant tnd other speakers urged that it would bo a benefit to the teaching profession, to these young men to re-enter it on then return, and that in order to get them back into the profession it would be necessary to offer them a living wage instead 'of the apprentice pay o a pupil teacher. The suggestion was that: tho amount of .£l5O per year should, be ofteied that the, men be given appointments higlier than that of pupil teacher and that tliev be instructed in their profession by correspondence with tho stall of the Training College until they ]J' cr . e "W e to nualifv themselves fully. Mi. tennant said that the staff of the college would gladly work overtime to assist theso young men, ■ ~ Tho "Minister, roplyiM, said that tho proposal involved a Vji'fterentuition between student teachers who had gone on with their course in tliV ordinary way without interruption and 4 ,,(10 "K wl ° had returned trom tho wa . Such all important innovation would have to bo referred to Cabinet, and he would haio pleasure in submitting it to his Milleagues. who, with himself, would gue it full consideration.