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Table K3.—Change in Average Number of Pupils per Adult Teacher in Public Primary Schools and Forms I and II of Junior High Schools and Departments.

ii. CLASSIFICATION OF TEACHERS. The following tables give the status in regard to certificates of teachers in primary schools, junior high schools and departments, secondary departments of district high schools and Native schools, and the classification of teachers in secondary, technical, and combined schools : —

Table L1.—Status in regard to Certificates of Teachers in Primary Schools and Forms I and II of Junior High Schools and Departments as in December.*

It will be noted that (exclusive of probationary assistants) there has been a steady drop in the number of uncertificated teachers. These in 1931 amounted to only 2 per cent, of the total number of teachers. Even this low figure is really an overestimate, as it includes a number of teachers in junior high schools who, although not the holders of teachers' certificates, are classified as secondary- or technical-school teachers. A probationary assistant, while not actually certificated, has completed a probationership and a two-year course of professional training at a teachers' training college. After one year in his present capacity he should be qualified to receive a trained teachers' certificate. In 1931 the percentage of probationary assistants was 8, as against 6 in the previous year.

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Average Attendance , T i j- -vr * t, Year. for Year ending Numberof Pupils per 31st August, Adult Teachers. Adult Teacher. I 1925 .. 194,741 6,002 32-4 1926 192,588 6,183 31-1 1927 .. 192,284 6,230 30-8 1928 195,411 6,341 30-8 1929 195,359 6,438 30-3 1930* 196,115 6,479 30-3 1931* .. .. .. .. 197,528 6,276 31-5 * Prior to 1930 only pupils and adnlt teachers in those junior high schools under the control of the Auckland Education Board were included.

1929. 1930. 1931. I j Number, i Number. I Number. ! r " centage. j centage. centage. I. Certificated teachers .. .. 5,969 93 5,921 91 5,674 90 II. Uncertificated teachers — (1) Holding licenses.. .. 8 f 7 f 4 t (2) Unlicensed .. .. 237 4 199 3 125 2 (3) Probationary assistants .. 224 3 352 6 473 8 Total uncertificated .. 469 7 558 9 602 ] 0 Totals of I and II .. .. 6,438 100 ! 6,479 100 6,276 I 100 I I * Prior to 1930 only those junior-high-school teachers in the service of an Education Board were included In 1930 and 1931 all teachers in Forms I and II of junior high schools and departments are included. f No appreciable percentage.