TEACHERS’ SALARIES

Hokitika Guardian, 19 January 1924, Page 1

TEACHERS’ SALARIES

NEW REGULATIONS. [by TELEGRAAII—PEK PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, Jan. 18. New regulations regarding teachers’ salaries come into force on February Ist. These provide: (a)—A deduction of £lO per annum from the salary payable to a certified teacher under sub-clause (17) shall he made in the ease of every un-

certified head or sole teacher, who is not the holder of a license to teach. (b) —Uncertified assistant teachers other than relieving teachers shall Ikclassified by the senior inspector and paid according to the billowing scale grade:—

Grade Minimum Maximum Annual in

—provided that holders oi licenses to teach may he paid £|U more than I hose rates and that teachers recommended by an Inspector oil account af special proficiency, may he paid at mill higher rate as llm Minister shall determine.

The following are the grades of sn arics payable to certified assistants :• Men— Trade Minimum Maximum Rise

Increases are made in the amounts payable in training colleges. The salaries of head teachers in Native schools rise from £ I fid to £Bl3. Questioned as to new regulations, an education authority said : “1 he regulations are somewhat revolutionary, hut not alarming. The cost will he the same in the aggregate, hut women will receive- less than men by from Jl) to 12 per cent. There will he three grades of touchers, instead of seven, and teachers will not have to move from school to school to gain their promotion. The regulations provide for country allowances from £lO Id £2b accordingly as the school is remote from centres of population."

OBJECT Of HEYISTON. WELLINGTON, .Jan. 18. The Minister nl Education, tin.' Hull C. I’air. states that the new regulations providing for a revision of tea'-hers’ salaries are intended to avoid tile I roipient changes of stall' and the consentient interruption of teaching. A teacher may now remain in his or her position in one school for live years, and receive his or her animal promotion increment. .Native tr.hool and Normal school assistants are brought into line with the public school assistants. New allowances are made to the headmasters ol district high schools. Small reductions will he made in the allowances of pupil and training college students on entering the service. A feature of the .scheme is that special allowances are to G_ made up to in order to induce youn^ try The main object of the nev scale o' salaries i- to cure the admitted shortcomings in the present scale. Ihe j grades of assistant Lonelier- is to lie j reduced from seven to three, lints re- j during; the necessity of !ro(|iienl transfer in order to gain promotion. This will lie in the interest of the teacher and the pupils, ruder the new grading. the present salaries of all holders of permanent fKisitious are provided against reduction.

£, !■ ci't'-liH-nl .11 A. 1 ■ ini JO ii. 1 A( ) ICO 10 C. iro :i so HI

1 150 .. 204 12 2 228 270 ... 12 3 228 321 12 ■1 330 .. 384 ... 12 Women— (Jratio .Minimum Maximum lliso 0 £ £ 1 135 175 ... 10 2 UK) 210 ... 10 3 280 300 10