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Education : journal of the N.S.W. Public School Teachers Federation

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Nef 331.8809944 EDU
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Sydney : The Federation, 1919-2021
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Vol. 40 No. 05 (29 Apr 1959)
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Contents

Education Journal of the N.S.W. Teachers' Federation 1
SALARIES AND EXCESS TEACHING HOURS TECHNICAL TEACHERS’ ASSOCIATION General Meeting of Technical Teachers 1
FEDERATION SUBSCRIPTIONS 1
Commonwealth Savings Bank’s £100,000 for New Federation Building Society 1
RECRUITMENT LAGS It E HIM) REQUIREMENTS: More Teachers’ Colleges Needed 1
"THE STAFFING POSITION IS BECOMING DESPERATE" 1
A Holler for the Loon Council: Unfinished Schools Coll For Earlier and Larger Allocations 2
REORGANISATION OF HIGH SCHOOLS PROMOTIONS LISTS 2
W.E.A. LIBRARY 2
Council Decision On Federal Salaries 2
FEDERATION ASSOCIATE RETIRED TEACHERS 2
RECIPE FOR FRUSTRATION 2
Equal Pay This Year: Appeal To Board and Premier 3
Nine Immediate Problems: Review By Parent-Teacher Council 3
DEPARTMENTAL TUTORS FOR TEACHERS' CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION 3
OBITUARY Miss Elsie L. Heuston 3
Advertising 3
Education 4
THE PUBLIC INSTRUCTION ACT AND THE PREMIERS' CONFERENCE 4
THE LAND OF UPSIDE-DOWN The President Writes: Seriousness Of Teacher Shortage 4
MR. HEFFRON CONGRATULATED 4
THE STORY OF ANZAC 4
FEDERATION LIBRARY Recent Accessions 4
Classloads, Staffing, Accommodation: Wide Survey Reveals Present Situation In Schools 5 , 6
Advertising 5 , 6
DEBUTANTES EDUCATION WEEK BALL THE TROCADERO Thursday, August 6 6
Farewell to Mrs. M. Vogan (Miss Inspector Ling, B.A.) 6
TECHNICAL EDUCATION Current Problems and Progress 6
TWO LETTERS Administrative Officers Committee Report 7
Meals at Technical Colleges 7
STEWART HOUSE NEWS 7
DEPUTY HEADMASTERS' ASSOCIATION 7
RETIREMENT OF MR. G. D. McINTYRE 7
The Teachers’ Club 7
Advertising 7 , 8

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Education  

Journal of the N.S.W. Teachers' Federation  

Registered at file General Poet Office, Sydney, for transmission by poet a» newspaper.  

Vol. 40.—N0. 5.  

APRIL 29, 1959  

Price: Threepence  

SALARIES AND EXCESS  

TEACHING HOURS  

TECHNICAL TEACHERS’ ASSOCIATION  

General  

Meeting of  

Technical  

Teachers  

Mr. S. P. Potts,  

President.  

Mr. J. W. Hansen,  

Secretary.  

special general meeting of  

the Technical Teachers’ Associa-  

tion was held on Saturday, April  

11 to discuss:  

(1) Salaries for technical  

teachers;  

(2 Excess teaching proposal  

submitted by the Public Service  

Board.  

The meeting was attended by  

senior officers of the Federation,  

Messrs. Don Taylor, H. S. Norington  

and S. P. Lewis, and Miss E. W.  

Mattick.  

Mr. Taylor addressed the meeting and  

answered questions put to him by the mem-  

bers. Motions dealing with the two sub-  

jects were submitted by senior officers of  

the T.T.A. on behalf of the Management  

Committee. Each speaker ably presented  

different aspects of the motions submitted  

by the Management Committee and the  

explanations received acclamation from the  

meeting. These motions resulted in good  

deal of debate and the proposal dealing with  

“Excess Teaching” was subjected to num-  

ber of amendments.  

vote of thanks to the members of the  

Management Committee and to the senior  

officers of the Federation for the great  

amount of time they had spent on the prob-  

lems facing technical teachers, and for the  

excellent way they combined together to  

present the case to the meeting, was car-  

ried unanimously.  

The meeting, which was limited to dis-  

cussing the two subjects on the agenda, car-  

ried the following motions:  

Salaries  

(1) “This general meeting of technical  

teachers considers the Board’s salary offer  

to be unsatisfactory. The offer breaks  

long-standing salary relationship technical  

teadiers have had with graduate teachers  

and can have no other effect than to down-  

grade technical teachers and adversely affect  

technical education.  

"We therefore rejectMhe offer and request  

the Board to reconsider its decision. With  

this purpose in view, the Board be asked  

to confer again with Federation and Tech-  

nical Teachers’ Association representatives.  

“Further, the Federation arrange repre-  

sentative meeting as soon as possible with  

the Minister, in order to secure his co-opera-  

tion in having our very reasonable claims  

granted.  

(2) “That, failing satisfactory solution  

to the salaries negotiations with the Board  

within three weeks, full-scale campaign be  

organised throughout the State, the cam-  

paign to be directed towards:  

“(a) Informing teachers of the Board’s  

attempt to devalue technical teachers and  

technical education;  

“(b) Securing general support by the com-  

munity for the justice of our claims;  

“(c) Securing the co-operation of parlia-  

mentary members throughout the State in  

support of our salary claim; and  

“(d) Securing the utmost publicity for  

our just claims.”  

"Excess" Teaching Hours  

“That the Public Service Board proposal  

headed “Excess” Teaching Hours, Depart-  

ment of Technical Education,' be altered to  

read as follows:  

“ ‘(1) (a) The present “ranges” of teach-  

ing loads shall cease and be replaced in each  

case by the present “norms," except in the  

case of Certificate Courses under review and  

Accountancy and which shall be adjust-  

ed to the same value as that of other Cer-  

tificate Courses.  

‘“(b) Teachers shall, as far as practic-  

able, be allocated programs to the “norms.”  

“ ‘(c) Where an emergency condition  

exists, teacher may be required to under-  

take additional teaching beyond the “norm”  

without additional payment to the extent  

of not more than ten hours (day equivalent)  

in any term, nor more than:  

“ ‘(i) Two hours (d.e.) in any week, if the  

teacher is working weekly program; or  

“ ‘(ii) Four hours (d.e.) in any fortnight  

if the teacher is working fortnightly pro-  

gram, provided that the emergency condi-  

tion, specified above, be limited to 24  

hours;  

“ ‘(iii) Where teachers are obliged to tra-  

vel between centres to perform excess teach-  

ing, all such excess teaching to be paid for  

as such.’  

“The remainder of the proposal is un-  

acceptable.”  

FEDERATION  

SUBSCRIPTIONS  

Mr. H. Greinberg, Secretary, Lower  

Tweed Association, writes to the  

General Secretary:  

"I am instructed by Lower Tweed Associ-  

ation to advise you that we are unanimously  

behind the move to increase members’ sub-  

scriptions.  

“We appreciate the need for more finance  

for the various campaigns and consider the  

proposed increase small price to pay for  

the many benefits we derive from being  

members of the Federation.  

“We extend our thanks and congratula-  

tions to the Executive for the mighty job  

they are doing."  

Commonwealth Savings Bank’s £100,000  

for New Federation Building Society  

The Commonwealth Savings  

Bank is making available imme-  

diately £lOO,OOO to the N.S.W.  

Teachers’ Federation Co-opera-  

tive Building Society No.  

Limited.  

loan of £150,000 from the Com-  

monwealth Savings Bank enabled the  

Federation’s first society to be formed  

three years ago, and the Federation  

now conducts societies with capital  

of £1 million.  

In expressing his pleasure that the Com-  

monwealth Savings Bank had been able to  

provide finance for the new society, Mr.  

A. D. M. Catto, Manager of the Bank’s  

Sydney Office, said that the Commonwealth  

Savings Bank was lending more money for  

housing than any other comparable institu-  

tion. Since the war, the Bank has lent more  

than £l5O million, which has enabled over  

90,000 families to obtain their own homes.  

The Bank is continuing to lend at high  

level. Well over £1 million is made avail-  

able each month. It is not generally known  

that one out of every nine houses constructed  

in Australia during the post-war years has  

been built with the assistance of loan from  

the Commonwealth Savings Bank —a record  

of which the Bank is justly proud.  

Mr. Catto stated that the Manager of any  

branch of the Commonwealth Savings Bank  

would be pleased to have the opportunity of  

discussing with those directly concerned the  

question of their housing needs and the  

ways and means available for obtaining  

financial assistance. He indicated that cur-  

rently the Commonwealth Savings Bank is  

approving great number of Housing Loans  

to its depositors and is also making advances  

enabling building societies to assist their  

individual members. The Bank’s Housing  

Loans are specifically for the erection or  

purchase of new homes. Naturally, the Bank  

recognises that it has prior obligation to  

its depositors and responsibility in assist-  

ing them.  

Mr. Catto concluded by saying that it must  

be widely recognised that the ability of the  

Commonwealth Savings Bank to continue its  

very material contribution to the solution  

of Australia’s housing problem was largely  

dependent upon the continuing support of  

its depositors and the acquisition of new  

business.  

(The Federation advises that enquiries re-  

garding Building Society finance should be  

made to Mr. L. T. Miller, Secretary, N.S.W.  

Teachers’ Federation Co-op. Building So-  

ciety Ltd.. 4th floor, 267 George St., Sydney.)  

RECRUITMENT  

LAGS It HIM)  

REQUIREMENTS:  

More Teachers’  

Colleges Needed  

Lack of accommodation for teacher training is im-  

peding recruitment of teachers in this State.  

Though the number of teachers' colleges has been  

increased to seven, there are still not enough colleges, to  

provide for the training of all suitable and qualified  

applicants, to say nothing of the numbers which are  

actually needed.  

At the beginning of this year  

some 500 suitable and qualified  

applicants for enrolment in  

teachers’ colleges could not com-  

mence training because accom-  

modation was not available.  

Training of 330 of them had to  

await completion of additions to col-  

leges, and the remainder, it is now  

officially stated, will be placed else-  

where. There is, however, danger  

that in the meantime some of these  

young people will be lost to teaching,  

and that at time when recruits to  

our Service were never more des-  

perately needed.  

All available retired teachers have  

been re-employed; the pool from  

which casual teachers are recruited  

has been practically exhausted, and,  

in desperation, and for the first time  

in some 45 years, untrained persons  

are being taken into the classrooms.  

At the same time heavy classloads  

are revealed in every survey; the most  

recent brought to light 123 classes in  

primary and infants’ schools with  

enrolments of 50 or more, and 75 in  

first, second- and third-year classes in  

secondary schools; and hundreds of  

classes in various types of schools  

throughout the State with enrolments  

of 45 or more.  

It has been stated officially that the  

number of students in New South  

Wales will reach the record of 5,000  

this year. This is an improvement on  

the 4,241 in training last year.  

Of these 4241 students, 1405 were  

following the four- or five-years  

course, 115 the three-years course and  

2721 the two-years course.  

These enrolments—424l in 1958, an  

estimated 5000 in 1959—are for State  

with school population which has  

reached 580,000 this year.  

The State of Victoria has done  

much better than New South Wales  

in attacking this teacher-recruitment  

problem. The total number of  

students in Victorian teachers’ col-  

leges this year is 4,945.  

In Victoria no qualified and suit-  

able applicant for studentship at  

college has been refused. Some may  

not have been able to get the type of  

course they wished, e.g., in such  

courses as Domestic Arts and Art and  

Craft the Department’s estimated re-  

quirements will be met by the num-  

ber accepted and therefore entry to  

such courses is now highly selective.  

Unsuccessful applicants for these  

courses are offered alternative courses.  

This year two new colleges have  

been established at Coburg and  

Frankston. These are in temporary  

accommodation, but the new buila-  

ing has been commenced at Coburg  

and tenders have been called for  

new building at Frankston. Both  

buildings, when completed, will ac-  

commodate approxim ate 500  

students. new college building was  

completed at Ballarat last year, with  

residential accommodation. new  

secondary teachers’ college is in  

course of construction.  

It is not suggested of course that Victoria's provision for  

education generally is in keeping with her provision for teacher  

training as compared with that of New South Wales. In many ways  

the advantage is with our own State. But if Victoria, with school  

population of 380,000, finds it necessary to train almost as many  

students as New South Wales, with school population of 580,000,  

the obvious conclusion is that as far as teacher training is concerned  

we are very far behind.  

"THE STAFFING  

POSITION IS BECOMING  

DESPERATE"  

Lest this may be thought  

to be an exaggeration made  

for propaganda purposes, it is  

necessary to say that:  

• Classloads in our schools  

have never been greater (page  

5);  

• The school population  

this year increased by nearly  

20,000;  

• The increase will be much  

greater in the future there  

are now 374,000 children of  

four years and under in New  

South Wales.  

Yet—  

• There has been hardly  

any increase in the number of  

students in teachers' colleges  

this year;  

• About 500 suitable and  

aualified applicants have so  

far been turned away because  

accommodation is not avail-  

able far their training;  

• There are no plans to  

provide more teachers' colleges  

until well on into the next  

financial year.  

All members should read  

the President's article on  

oaae 4.  

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