AN UNPOPULAR PROFESSION

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 9 May 1918, Page 2

AN UNPOPULAR PROFESSION

BETTER INDUCEMENTS

FOR TEACHERS,

THE Hon. J. A. Hanan (Minister for Educatian), in conversation with a " Times " representative, said he was very glad that the Government had agreed to N provide the amount necessary to increase the salaries of teacher probationers and training college students. The need for offering further inducements to encourage young people to take up the teaching profession was shown, added the Minister, by the fact that durihg the past three years 1900 teachers had left the primary school service, or at the rate of over 600 annually, and only 404 new pupil teachers and probationers had been appointed at the beginning of the present year. In addition to the 1900 mentioned above, 700 teachers had joined the Expeditionary Force. About 120 posts for probationers .were at present vacant, and could not be filled at the present salaries, Of the 404 appointments of pupil teachers and probationers made this year, onlj- 67, or one in six, were males.