QUALIFICATION OF ART TEACHER.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 May 1923, Page 4

QUALIFICATION OF ART TEACHER.

VI’PEM. BOARD'S itECUAIAI LNHATTONS. WELLINGTON, April 2s The Teachers’ Appeal Hoard, sitting in Wellington, has just decided an important appeal affecting the rights of ron-pmtessioi.al teachers m the New /.calami technical schools to promotion to the professimil division. The board comprised Air Veter Harr ( Dunedin’:. ,|, airman, Air U. J. Thompson Teachers’ representative) and Dr Mur-den (representative of the Education Department). The appellant, Aliss Eva 1L Mouldey, of the Chiixtehureh School of Art, appealed against the refusal of the j.;,!ucalion Department .to grade her In ip., prcfcs.sioiml division. Air .tlnrtin (XV. IGogton Technical College) acted as ad-'p-n'e for the appellant. It was t , .!, ,| on behalf of Miss Alouldcy thin her teaching experience in England, and her considerable aggregate ~, attendances at various schools of art in England and in New /calami, entitled her to the professional gradin;:. The decision of Die Director ol Education, however, had lawn that this

*-■. j p‘r ic ui e was not equivalent lo the academic standard of attainment roi|uired lur (lii.ssilicntiou in the professional division. In answer to tills objection it was contended on beluill of'the appellu ni that in art this nltninmen cnttltl not he secured in New Zealand, ami that the decision forced teachers to go outside 11 to Dominion in order to win the rr<|uircd dr.groe. '(Tins an impossible barrier had been presented In Hie promotion of nonpro L-s-ionni teachers to the p-ofes-sional grade. The hoard, although refusing the appeal, decided to make recommendation'; lo flic Director ui I'.ducation which would overcome the difficulty indicated by the appellant bv instituting an examination, and also widening the power of the Minister ol Education so as to permit of an increased salary to members of the non-prn-I’essioiinl division in special eases where their qualifications justify such an increment.