AID FOR TEACHERS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 222, 14 June 1920, Page 4

AID FOR TEACHERS

TRAVELLING BURSARIES.

The Minister of.Education (the Hon. C. J. Parr) is having regulations prepared to provido for the payment of travelling bursaries to primary school, teachers. For the present the bursarica will be only four per annum. "When the regulations go into, effect,", said the Minister, "applications will be invited; from teachers who desire this privilege. The education boards will be notified or this in due course, «nd tire boards and the chief inspector of each district will report on each application before it comes to tho Department. Teachers will require to state their academic attainments, length of service, and experience, schools visited in New Zealand, and any phase of education which they have studied and wish to investigate abroad. Of course, the Department will require some ndequßte guarantee that the Applicant will really devote his or -her time abroad to educational matters, anil a bond must bt> given that he or sbe will teach in Now Zealand for a given number of years after the completion, of any, such visit subsidised by the Department. We'need to gunrd against the possibility of any teacher applicant merely making use of the Department's offer-to secure a cheap holiday trip to Europe The teacher must moan business otherwiso ho need not apply. I .hope that this inexpensive departure will lead eventually to an interchange of .teachers between tin Homeland; Canada, Australia, amV perhaps tho United States, and ourselves. ■