AUCKLAND EDUCATION BOARD

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 956, 31 July 1903, Page 3

AUCKLAND EDUCATION BOARD

’(Per Press Association^ Auckland, last night. The question of allowing teachers to apply for positions outside their own district was brought under the notice of the Education Board by the Educational Institute of Otago. That Institute suggested that now that a uniform scale of salaries had been fixed there was no reason why teachers should not be allowed to obtain promotion from one district to another. They asked, therefore, that they should be notified of future vacancies in the Auckland district. The Chairman remarked that vacancies were so rapidly filled that there would not be sufficient time for distant applicants to apply. It was decided to reply accordingly. A clause providing that teaohers oanvasßing members of the Education Board should be disqualified from applying for vacant positions was discussed by the Education Board this morning. Mr Rutherford said teacherß ought to be allowed to canvass openly instead of doing so clandestinely. Mr Luke said it was on his motion that the clause was adopted, and he should oppose its deletion. In the absence of this regulation members of the Board would be inundated by applicants. The rule was not rescinded. The report of the Education Board on the recent examination of pupil teacher candidates and pupil teaohers states that

the results of the examinations are in general very satisfactory. The English papers of candidates are getting better year by year. Those of pupil teaohers in the department of literature do not show an equal advance, and the teaching of thiß part of the pupil teachers’ course of study might well be better. The report on needlework was as follows :—“ Sewing

this yoar is slightly improved, but cutting out is no better. It shows a lamentable

lack of common sense, and also a want of sense of proportion. Candidates from Hamilton and Thames show much better work than those from Auckland and Wbangarei. As in previous years the questions have apparently been carelessly read, resulting in a quantity of unnecessary work being done, while work for. which marks would be gained is left unfinished.”