TECHNICAL SCHOOLS.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 May 1922, Page 4

TECHNICAL SCHOOLS.

CONFERENCE OF DIRECTORS. , .. SERIES OF RESOLUTIONS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. Among resolutions passed to-day by the technical education conference were the following: That a senior mistress of a technical high school with a roll number of over 200 pupils should receive £3O in addition to the graded salary, as recompense for additional duties involved. That there should be a definite scale of salaries for student teachers in technical schools at least as liberal as that provided for primary schools. That where a teacher supervises evening classes the Education Department should be a-sked to regard sueh service as equivalent to overtime teaching work and pay -for it accordingly. That the maximum salary for men in division two be increased to £450 and for women £336. That the teaching hours of technical school teachers be fixed at ten halfdays weekly, it being understood that evening duty is to be counted as half a day, and that a teacher on duty for part of a half-day be regarded as on duty for the whole of that half-day, this system to be adopted on the understanding that the staffing ratio be one to 25 pupils on the roll on March 31. That the hours of service required of teachers be 30 per week for not less than 40 weeks per year, the hours of service being regarded as the actual time-table hours assigned by the director. That as a general rule teachers be not called upon to teach on more than two evenings per week. That when allotting marks classification officers shall give due weight to the recommenda/tions of the principal of the school concerned, particularly as to the out of school activities of tne instructors.

That in the classification of those in the service before initial grading the regulations requiring the possession of a University degree or equivalent for classification in the professional division be more liberally interpreted, and that in the case of these teachers the lack of higher degrees be no bar vo positions in the higher grades. That technical school boards be allowed to retain one-third of the class fees. That provision be made for an allocation to technical education of a. fair share of the revenue from national endowments.

That in view of the fact that members of boards of managers are held personally responsible for the interest on bank' overdrafts, this conference rei quest the Minister for Education to have progress and other payments made immediately when due, failing which interest should be added at the current bank rate.