PART-TIME TEACHERS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 223, 9 December 1927, Page 3

PART-TIME TEACHERS

REVISED RATES OF PAY TECHNICAL COLLEGE DECISION A new schedule of rates for parttime teachers was submitted to the meeting of the Board of Managers of the Seddon Memorial Technical College yesterday afternoon by the principal, Mr. G. J. Park. The new rates were calculated to reward teachers on the value of their work rather than on their qualifications, he said. To those employed in trades there would be increases according to scale. Teachers with degrees in some cases would have their salaries reduced. The alteration meant that degrees being discounted, said Mr. J. A. C. Allum, who expressed strong opposition to the scheme. He moved that the question should be deferred until after the reopening of the college. The amendment was lost and the motion that the recommendations be given a trial for the first term of next year was carried with four members opposing. At the request of the Education Department, which wrote expressing regret at the inadequate playing area, it was decided to send plans of proposed extensions. It was decide to have all the furniture and stock for which the department was not responsible insured. A tribute was paid to the services of Mr. F. J. Ohlson, who was retiring from the evening school staff after 28 years’ service. Miss Winifred Hitchen, home science teacher at Gisborne, was appointed to the same position at the college. There were five applicants for the position.