EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2080, 4 January 1908, Page 2

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE.

Press Association,

AUCKLAND, Jan. 3. .Tho Now Zealand Educational Institute Conference to-day received the report of tho Promotion Committee, which made recommendations for the grouping of districts, a board of classification, right of appeal, methods of grading, and how vacancies should bo tilled. The’ affirmed that salaries should depend on tho class of position, determined by tho working average or the rotj number, not on average attendance; that tho scale of payment should he in keeping with that indicated in the table showing correlation of classes, except that a teacher in charge of a small school should receive a higher salary than assistants in an equivalent division; that each division ljavo a fixed minimum salary to lie paid from appointment, and thereafter for. sav : ten years, and an annual increment until the maximum salary of that division is reached: that provision should he made for the transfer of teachers whose schools have fallen below or have increased above the division for which siiarios are being paid: that provision should be made that no teacher then employed shall suffer a reduction of sahirv as the result of the intrnduc* Po •■!' the new svstem. The recommendations are being discussed in committee.