TEACHING PROFESSION

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 54, 1 September 1926, Page 8

TEACHING PROFESSION

SIGNS OF OVERCROWDING

ABSORBING STUDENTS FROM TRAINING-COLLEGE..

(By Telegraph.)

(Special to "The Evening Post."),

DUNEDIN, This ,Day.

Is tliero a tendency towards overcrowding in the teaching profession? The figures obtained by a reporter from the secretary of the Otago Education Board seem to indicate that it is becoming increasingly difficult to absorb the students coining from the Dunedin Training College year by year. At the beginning of the yoar difficulty is generally experienced in securing appointments for many .teachers -fresh from the college, and the year is sometimes as far advanced as July before the bulk of them manage to obtain, positions. A number wishing to pursue their studies at the university, do not seek appointment. ' ,

This year 134 students will be leaving the Training College, and of this number 99 belong to Otago. ■ Last year 85 Otago students loft the Training College, and many found considerable difficulty in procuring positions in the early part of the present year. At the present timo there are eight of last year's students who have not been-ap-pointed at all. Forty-five are recorded as not being in permanent positions, 32 being women teachers and 13 men.

It was difficult to say what the actual position would be next year, said the secretary, but it certainly looked as if there would be a good deal of unemployment among teachers for the first three months at any rate.