PUPIL TEACHERS.
UNFAIR RESTRICTIONS.
By Telegraph.—Press Association.
Dunedin, Saturday. Pupil teacEers undergoing a twoyears' course at the Training College receive £3O a year if residents of the town and £6O if not. The college is open tor nine months and during the other ulree it has been customary for the students to Cake employment in the larger schools. For this the Otago Board lias never paid them, but '.lie Southland Board has paid them on the Scale fixed for pupil teachers. The Education Department has just discovered this and sent in a demand for a refund bv the Southland teachers of the whole amount paid them on account of the training college while they were receiving salary from the Southland Board.
The local Board went into the matter to-day, and while condemning its own -treatment of students in the past, expressed its unbounded indignation at the unfair restriction proposed to he placed on these young teachers by the Department. It is contended that they have a right to do as they like in their own time when the college is not ; n «essjpn. The Board is taking legal r.dto the position.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 251, 29 November 1909, Page 3
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191PUPIL TEACHERS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 251, 29 November 1909, Page 3
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