SECONDARY SCHOOLS
CONFERENCE OF TEACHERS. THE SALARY QUESTION. (Per United Press Association.) , WELLINGTON, May 22 The annual conference of the Secondary School Assistants’ Association opened today. The president (Mr J. Drummond), in his address, said secondary education had not hitherto received the consideration due to it as the intermediate stage between primary and university education. Many university graduates now look up teaching simply as a .stepping stone to other professions. and the profession was becoming less and less popular with men. A dominion scheme of salaries was urgently needed, and it was desirable that increments should depend upon reasonable conditions as to efficiency. Teachers had been criticised for talking so much of salaries, but in reply to this he pointed out that until a satisfied band of teachers was assured the best results would not be achieved in education in New Zealand. Therefore the Association felt it necessary to secure a standard of salaries which would bring content and induce the best men and women to enter the ser vice.
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Southland Times, Issue 18829, 24 May 1920, Page 4
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170SECONDARY SCHOOLS Southland Times, Issue 18829, 24 May 1920, Page 4
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