WORK FOR STUDENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 24 January 1929, Page 5

WORK FOR STUDENTS

CHRISTCHURCH, Jan. 21

The problem of the employment of training college students when they have completed their course was discussed with the Minister of Education (Air H. Atinore) by members of the Canterbury Education Board to-day. Mr E. H. Andrews said that each year a large number of students were discharged from the Christchurch Training College, 'Positions were found for a number as probationary and substitute assistants—a position that lasted for a year only. The students were then thrown out of employment. There were some for whom no work was found at all. There were IUO ex-students out of work at present, and it was felt that as they had signed a bond—the.men for five years and the women for three years—something should bo done for them. - It was felt that they could be distributed at a training salary round the large city schools, in which there were very large classes, and round the country schools, in which the classes had grown big enough to place the school on tho border line of needing another teacher These positions could be created as further training positions, and held until the students could gain permanent employment. The Minister said that if the scheme suggested by Air Andrews were carried out it- would mean an expenditure of £BSOO for the Canterbury unemployed ex-students alone, and there were three other training colleges, so that the cost, presumably, would be over £30,000 a year. Students gradually -became absorbed, and although for many of them there was no immediate prospect at the beginning of the year, it must be remembered that they bad been trained for a profession. However, he would give the question consideration.