EDUCATION: SUPPLEMENTARY REPORT ON CLASSIFICATION OF TEACHERS. [In Continuation of E.-1a, Sess. I.]

Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1887 Session II, E-01a

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Sess. 11.—1887. NEW ZEALAND.

EDUCATION: SUPPLEMENTARY REPORT ON CLASSIFICATION OF TEACHERS. [In Continuation of E.-1a, Sess. I.]

Presented to both Houses of the General Assembly by Command of His Excellency.

The Inspectob-Genebae of Schools to the Hon. the Ministeb of Education. Sib, — Education Department, Wellington, 7th July, 1887. In my report on the last examination for certificates I promised to prepare a statement of the number of certificated teachers in the service of the Education Boards. In fulfilment of that promise I have now the honour to submit a supplementary report. The last complete list of teachers employed by the Boards is the list for December, printed with the annual report in May. Many teachers whose names are in that list have obtained certificates this year, and the status recognised in this report is the status after the annual revision, the results of which will appear in the Gazette now being printed. To state the case briefly, the December service-list is here brought into comparison with the June certificate-list. The December list contains 2,885 names ; but, as 916 are pupil-teachers and 173 sewingmistresses, the list is reduced, for the purpose of the present inquiry, to 1,796, and it is made up of 1,298 holders of certificates and 498 teachers without certificates. Amongst the 498 uncertificated, there are 35 who have passed the required examination, but have not yet had marks assigned them by an Inspector, or have not yet served for two years. There are also among them 136 in whose favour " partial pass " has been recorded. There remain 327 who have not attained even to " partial pass, v but of this number there are 32 who have received a license to teach (a temporary certificate); the remainder consists of 185 persons who have not presented themselves for examination, and 110. who have presented themselves and failed. While there were about 500 uncertificated teachers in the service of the Boards, there was at least an equal number of certificated teachers not in the service. There are 1,971 teachers in the June list of certificates; and, the number 1,298, stated above, increased by 3 for three pupilteachers who have gained certificates, being subtracted from 1,971, there is a remainder of 670 to represent teachers holding certificates in June who were not in the service in December. Thirteen of these are teaching in Native schools, and some in grammar schools. At least 130 of the unemployed holders of certificates are married women, now attending to the affairs of their households. It is not quite sufficient to consider only the distinction between certificated and uncertificated. From the legal point of view, a license is a temporary certificate ; and, as 44 of the teachers in the December list now have licenses, and 3 others have district licenses, the total number of the legally qualified teachers who were at work in December is 1,345, and of those not legally qualified, 451. The condition of the several districts with respect to the legal qualifications of the teachers (excluding pupil-teachers and sewing-mistresses) may be exhibited as follows :— District. Legally qualified. Not legally qualified. Auckland ... ... ... ... 287 ... 90 Taranaki ... ... ... ... 32 ... 13 Wanganui ... ... ... ... 69 ... 32 Wellington ... ... ... ... 86 ... 35 Hawke's Bay ... ... ... ... 57 ... 18 Marlborough ... ... ... ... 21 ... 16 Nelson ... ... ... ... 54 ... 90 Grey ... ... ... ... 10 ... 19 Westland ... ... ... ... 17 ... 17 North Canterbury ... ... ... 255 ... 37 South Canterbury ... ... ... 63 ... 16 Otago ... ... ... ... 315 ... 28 Southland ... ... ... ... 79 ... 40 1,345 451

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From the point of view of attainments another principle of division is required. In one classwill stand the fully-qualified, the holders of permanent certificates ; in another the partially-qualified, including those that have passed the required examination, together with those in whose favour " partial pass " has been recorded and the holders of licenses ; and the third class will contain the unqualified. According to this method of division the numbers in the December list are aa follows:— Qualified ... ... ... ... ... ... 1,298 Partially-qualified ... ... ... ... ... 203 Unqualified ... ... ... ... ... ... 295 For the several districts the numbers are as follows :—

The smallest number of unqualified teachers (4) is found in Otago, the largest district, and the largest number (80) in Nelson. The case of Nelson, however, is quite exceptional, because the pupil-teacher system is not in use there. In the following table pupil-teachers are included, and the numbers are reduced to percentages of the whole number of teachers (not counting sewingmistresses) in each district.

It is fair to assume that the Boards would not employ a large proportion of teachers having no adequate legal or educational qualifications if they were able to fill all the appointments with fully-qualified teachers; and that the large number of certificated teachers not now in the service of the Boards consists chiefly of those who have chosen some other pursuit,, and of those who do not find it worth their while to leave districts in which their services are not required and to seek engagements where the demand is greater. The very small number of teachers without qualification in the Otago Education District may be taken as indicating not only the care with which the Board insists on the possession of a certificate as a condition of obtaining an appointment, but also the sufficiency of the supply of duly-qualified teachers in the district; and this sufficiency of supply is a sign of the efficiency of the instruction given in the schools from which the candidates come. There may, however, bo some connection between the rate of pay and the supply of qualified teachers. Otago has, on the average, larger classes than any other district, and gives better salaries. But Southland, with classes nearly as large and salaries nearly as good, has a rather large proportion of partially-qualified and unqualified teachers. It was my intention to add a statement with respect to the classification of the ex-students of the Normal Schools; but I find that there are some discrepancies in the statistical returns from which my information must be drawn, and, until I have had some further correspondence with the school authorities, I must defer this investigation. The result I propose to submit in a postscript of later date. I have, &c, Wm. Jas. Habens, The Hon. the Minister of Education, Wellington. Inspector-General of Schools.

District. Qualified. Partiallyqualified. Not qualified. Auckland Taranaki 274 27 69 84 50 19 54 10 17 246 59 313 76 48 8 11 14 14 2 10 5 5 34 11 26 15 55 10 21 23 11 16 80 14 12 12 9 4 28 Wanganui Wellington Hawke's Bay ... Marlborough ... Nelson Grey ... Westland North Canterbury South Canterbury Otago Southland 1,298 203 295

District. Certificated. Partiallyqualified. Not Qualified. Pupil-teachers. Auckland Taranaki 46-8 42-2 47-3 37-1 38-8 41-2 37-5 26-3 32-7 48-1 50-4 63'5 47-2 8-2 12-5 7-5 6-2 109 4-4 7-0 13-2 9-6 6-7 9-4 5-3 9-3 9-5 15-6 14-4 10-2 8'5 34-8 55-5 36-8 23-1 2-3 7-7 0-8 17-4 35-5 29-7 30-8 46-5 41-8 19-6 Wanganui ... Wellington ... Hawke's Bay Marlborough Nelson Grey Westland North Canterbury South Canterbury Otago Southland ... 33-7 34-& 42-9 32-5 30-4 26-1

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Postsceipt. 20th October, 1887. —I find that at the 31st of December, 1886, the number of students from normal schools who had left the institutions was not 754, as stated in Table S, p. xii., of this year's Education Eeport, but 732. Of this number, 490 now hold certificates, and 30 others have completed their examinations, and will receive certificates when they have been two years in the service, or when marks are given by Inspectors. Sixty-one are registered for " partial success" at examination. Licenses have been granted to 7 ex-students. There are 44 names on the list of "Failures at examination." There are 84 who have not taken any steps towards obtaining a certificate, but probably half of these (at least) were private students who never designed to become teachers. There have been 16 cases of retirement or decease before the completion of the course of study. This statement is expanded in the following table : —

Wm. Jas. Habens.

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Auckland Normal School. M. W. Wellington Normal School. Christohurch Normal School. Dunedin Normal School. Total. M. w. M. W. 1!. \V. M. W. Men. Women. Both. Certificate Waiting for marks Waiting for service ; 'Partial pass " License Failure No steps taken Retirement or decease before end of course 16 42 0 33 52 4 >j t 4 3 98 d 6 19 3 11 38 112 1 3 8 131 8 8 12 186 5 3 IS •2 14 14 304 12 10 43 5 30 70 490 17 13 61 7 44 84 3 1 2 4 1 2 i 10 2 6 24 10 9 13 (i 2 1 2 4 1 4 4: 10 6 16 Total 21 48 17 70 67 179 147 177 252 480 732