CHANGES MADE

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 153, 2 December 1938, Page 9

CHANGES MADE

EDUCATION SYSTEM

TRAINING OF TEACHERS

A number of alterations in the Education Regulations were brought into force by notices under the Regulations Act published in a Gazette issued last night. The amendments affect the training of teachers, teachers' salaries, and the computation of grants to education boards. The first is an amendment to the training college regulations which provides for the approval of certain schools as "model" schools, though they are not actually attached to normal schools. This step has been found necessary because of the large number of students in training, and the fact that "model" schools at normal schools have not been found adequate for the^ purpose. . Another regulation deals with the [ examination and classification of teachers. This has been rendered necessary because the training college entrance examination was recently abolished. This examination was a prerequisite for the teachers' class C examination, and it included the subjects of history and geography. The amendments provide that these subjects shall be added to the list of compulsory subjects for the class C examination. The effect will not be to increase the number of subjects for this examination, as the amendment also reduces the number of optional subjects required to be passed by two. TEACHERS' SALARIES. Recently the teachers' salaries regulations were gazetted and these provided for a new scheme of staffs and salaries, which affected nearly all teachers in different degrees. Under this scheme it is intended to devise a new grading group scheme which will take some time to bring into effect. It is proposed in the primary teachers* grading regulations amendment now issued that for the grading of primary school teachers in February they be classified in grading groups according to the grade of salary which would have been payable to them under the old regulations. GRANTS TO BOARDS. Another set of regulations deals with grants to education boards. In the Education Amendment Act passed last session, provision was made for the payment of increased grants to education boards for general purposes, and for grants to school committees. The regulations now issued provide that grants for next year shall be based on rolls of public schools within the different education board districts on September 16, 1938—the date on which the roll is taken for determining the staffs of public schools for next year.