EDUCATIONAL MATTERS.
UN CERTIFICATED TEACHERS. Press Association DUNEDIN, last night. Mr. T. Mackenzie, M.H.R. (Chairman of the Country Schools Committees’ Association), has issued a circular inviting the members of country school committees and others who are interested in education to attend a meeting to he held in Dunedin on June 6th. In the course of the circular Mr. Mackenzie states:—“The welfare of country schools is being imperilled by the great number of uncertificated teachers in the service, all of whom are in country schools. A few years ago we had not, an uncertificated teacher in Otago—now we have 80. In 1891 the colony had 162 —lasf year it had 349 and this year it has 680. The work of some of our district high schools requires adjusting. A check to the centralising tendency is required and some of the powers that have been taken from Boards regarding additions to schools etc., should be restored. The specialisation of subjects with a view to the future lives of pupils should be considered, and the better heating of schools and the question of placing on the Boards the whole cost of piaintaining buildings will be brought up.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2085, 21 May 1907, Page 4
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194EDUCATIONAL MATTERS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2085, 21 May 1907, Page 4
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