North Canterbury Education Board.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 114, 23 May 1901, Page 3

North Canterbury Education Board.

EMPLOYMENT OF MALE TEACHERS. By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, last night. The North Canterbury Education Board has adopted the report of the Appointinents Committee, which statod that the system of employing girl monitors tended to keep boys out of the teaching profession, and it recommended that the Board should frame regulations dealing with the subject. It was considered, subject to the suitability of employment and the ap-' proval of the Board, every fourth pupil teacher appointed in any school should be a boy, respecting which proposal it was agreed to obtain the opinion of the Inspectors’ Board. It was also decided that in cases whore the reports of the Inspector and principal teacher did net indicate at least good aptitude for the work of teaching, that the Board should at once terminate the engagement of the probationary pupil teacher. The North Canterbury Education Board decided to adopt the advice of its solicitor that between the time of the opening of the school in the forenoon and the time for closing such school in the afternoon no teaching other than of an entirely secular character should be given in any schools within the Board’s jurisdiction. Tiic North Canterbury Education Board has passed a motion that it is undesirable to introduce manual subjects into the higher standards until the syllabus [is revised. But, as regards the preparatory classes and Standards I. and 11., the Board has requested the headmasters of all schools having two teachers to arrange the time-tables so as to allow the required instruction in one or more of the manual subjects mentioned in section two of the school classes.