JOBS FOR NEW TEACHERS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 569, 23 January 1929, Page 1

JOBS FOR NEW TEACHERS

LITTLE UNEMPLOYMENT EDUCATION BOARD’S ASSURANCE Assurance that practically all the | students coming out of the teachers' Training College this year would have positions for a year as probationers was given by the secretary of the Auckland Education Board, Mr. D. W. Dunlop, to-day. Tie said that very few of the trainees, probably not more than half a dozen, would fail to get positions.. Mr. A. Burns, the chairman of the board, told members that the statement did not refer to those probationers who had already had a year’s work. Mr. 11. S. W. King asked liow the positions were allocated to the teachers coming out of training college. Mr. Dunlop said that the applicants were placed in the order of the provisional grading given them by thprincipal of the training college. Positions were given to the teachers according to their ranking and an endeavour was made to give them what they asked for Mr. King said he would now be able to explain to parents how their sons and daughters were placed—it was the result of the principal’s grading. POSITION IN CANTERBURY HUNDRED OUT OF WORK (Special to 'THE SL'X) CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday. The fate of the students who left Training College at the end of last year was discussed by the Canterbury Education Board yesterday with the Minister of Education, the Hon. 11. Atmore. Each year the number of teachers finishing their course at College exceeds the number of posts. At present there are 100 ex-students out of work. The men had signed a bond for five years and the women for and the department should, it was suggested, do something for them. One proposal is that these teachers should be distributed at a training salary around the large city schools and country schools where the classes had grown so large as to be on the borderline of needing another teacher. These positions would be only temporary until permanent positions would be found. The total cost of such a system, said the Minister, would be about £30,000 a year. Students gradually became absorbed and, although for many of them there was no immediate prospect at the beginning of the year, it must be remembered they had been trained for a profession. However, he would give the question consideration.