TEACHER SALARIES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8516, 22 August 1907, Page 5

TEACHER SALARIES.

Some interesting remarks on the subject of teachers' salaries were made by the Minister for Education (Hon. G. Fowlds) in the House of Representatives on Tuesday afternoon. One of the reasons for the last increase that was made in the scale, he said, was the fact that previously the first -ass'stants had received salaries that were out of proportion with the work of the second and other assistants, and the increases were made for the purpose of bringing the other assistants up to the standard that had been fixed for the first assistants. He believed that something needed to be done in regard to the position of first assistants in the district high schools, and he was having enquiry made as to the working of the present system. He did not propose to bring in any measure this year making a general increase or alteration in the scale of salaries for teachers. He was getting together all the information he could as to the difficulties found in various parts of the colony, and he hoped next session to submit proposals Mealing with the whole question of staffing and salaries. Any shortage of teachers would, he added, be largely removed by the operation of the training colleges. They were providing free tuition for a very large number of students, and as these passed out he believed that the shortage difficulty would be overcome. After all, a very great deal had been done to make the teaching profession more attractive than it was in bygone days, and he believed that now it is drawing bright boys and girls into the work of teaching, and that the profession would in future be of a much higher class than it had been in the past.

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