NORMAL TRAINING COLLEGE.
DEARTH OF MALE TEACHERS. UNCERTAINTY OF PROMOTION. Tress Association. WELLINGTON, Ala roll 27. During the past year there were 81 students at work in the Normal Training College. Out of 81 only 17 were men. This is the subject of comment by tho principal. “It is becoming commonplace,” says Air. Gray, the principal, “that teaching has ceased to ho attractive to men. A larger proportion of men must be found, and I believe that it ds tin- uncertainty of promotion rather than Ihe smallness of tho remuneration Hint at present warns off men.” Out of 916 adult teachers in the middle university district, 229 have no examination status whatever, and the position is a serious one.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2151, 28 March 1908, Page 2
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119NORMAL TRAINING COLLEGE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2151, 28 March 1908, Page 2
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