THE TEACHING PROFESSION

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 273, 8 April 1911, Page 2

THE TEACHING PROFESSION

UNCERTIFICATED TEACHERS IN SOUTHLAND. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Invercargill, Friday. In the inspector's report presented to the annual meeting of the Education Board to-day it was stated that of the 107 uncertificated teachers in the Board's employ at the close of the year 1910, about 70 per cent, were inrece'ipt of salaries averaging less than £IOO. It was almost unreasonable to expect to ob-1 tain certificated teachers for such posi-| tions as those. Again, it should be re- i membered that the 107 teachers referred to were not in sole charge of schools. About forty of them were employed as assistants under certificated teachers, mostly of considerable experi-' ence, and were therefore presumably under competent supervision. Of the remainder, fully half might be said to be doing work which could be described as satisfactory in the ordinary sense of the term, while of the rest a fair number were showing considerable improvement in the management of their schools. A fair proportion of uncertificated teachers were young persons who had really passed the "D" examination, but had not yet, on account of their youth, received actual classification.