EDUCATIONAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2597, 23 June 1923, Page 2

EDUCATIONAL.

Discussing 1 the shortage of teachers at last Wednesday’s meeting of the Wanganui Education Board, the chairman said the Minister had said a. great deal about reducing the size of classes by increasing the number of teachers, but the Board had found on analysis that the classes were still large and no extra teachers available. He would like to see second-year students at the training colleges allowed to enter schools provided they had their D certificates.

The chief inspector said this would not be fair to those students who wished to gain their C certificates.

It was decided to write to the Department and call its attention to the continued shortage of teachers. Pupil Teachers’ Study.—The New Zealand Educational Institute wrote protesting against the amount of study required of pupil teachers and probationers. Mr Mclntyre said young teachers to-day were working under better conditions than those of the past. If they were not- prepared to work they should give up the profession. Mr Aitken said there was nobody from whom so much was expected as from pupil teachers. They had it hard day’s work followed by a hard night’s study. Mr Durward said law and medical students had to study far more than pupil teachers. There was no body that had more holidays and shorter hours. Mr Fraser said there was no comparison between teachers daily work and the work of railway or postal employees. Tt was eventually decided to ask the Institution to furnish particulars of cases of overwork.