HOW TO GET TEACHERS

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 42, 12 May 1927, Page 8

HOW TO GET TEACHERS

THE INSTALMENT PUN MINISTER’S NEW SCHEME <From Our Resident Coi'res pandent.) WELLINGTON, To-day. The Hon. R. A. Wright, Minister of Education, proposes to make a drastic change in the method of securing a supply of teachers for our public schools. Some years ago it was found difficult to induce young people to enter the profession, so training colleges were established and students paid for attending them. The present expenditure on this system reaches £123,000, and as there is now no dearth of aspirants to the profession, the Minister proposes to get back from the teachers by instalments, when they have obtained appointments, the cost of their training. “The scheme,” says Mr. Wright, in addressing the New Zealand Educational Institute at Wellington yesterday, “will enable young teachers to be trained without hardship to them* selves or loss to the State.” It is further proposed that the ini* tial salary of the young teacher should be increased in order to enable him to carry the load, and that country students should receive a boarding allowance which would not be repayable. The Minister believed that his scheme would attract to the service those who were prepared to win their training by individual effort and a measure of self-sacrifice which should strengthen character and make for better men and women. |