TRAVELLING BURSARIES

Southland Times, Issue 18849, 15 June 1920, Page 6

TRAVELLING BURSARIES

BROADENING THE TEACHER’S HORIZON. SCHEME IN PREPARATION. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Juno 14. The Minister of Education, the Hon. C. ■T. Parr, is having regulations prepared to provide for the payment of travelling bursaries to primary school teachers. For the present the bursaries will be only four per annum. "When the regulations go into effect,” said the Minister, "applications will be invited from teachers who desire this privilege. The Education Board will be notified of this in due course ami the Board and the chief inspector of each district will report on each application before it comes to the Department. Teachers will require to state their academic attainments, length of service and experience in schools visited in New Zealand, and any phase of education which they have studied and wish to investigate abroad. Of course the Department will require some adequate guarantee that the applicant will really devote his or her time abroad to educational matters and a bond must, be given that he or she will teach in. New' Zealand for a given number of years after completion of any such visit subsidised by the Department. We need to guard against the possibility of any teacher applicant merely making use of the Department's offer to secure a cheap holiday trip to Europe. The teacher must mean business, otherwise he need not apply. I hope that this inexpensive departure will lead eventually to an interchange of teachers between the Homeland, Canada, Australia and perhaps the United States and ourselves.”