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. 38 No. 10 (14 Aug 1957)
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Education PAST PRESENT FUTURE Journal of the N.S.W. Teachers' Federation 1
SKYSCRAPER SCHOOL OF GLASS AND CONCRETE 1
All Members Invited To Attend Opening Of Annual Conference 1
TEACHERS’ PROBLEM IN CHANGING STRUCTURE 1
TEACHERS SHOCKED BY SALARIES “OFFER” Council’s Call For State-Wide Protest Meetings 1
Public Service Board’s Offer for a New Salaries Agreement for Three Years Ending June 30, 1960 2
SPELLING LISTS FOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS 2
TRIBUTE TO MR. lAN ALDER 2
INSPECTION PROCEDURES DISCUSSED 2
SUPPORT FOR ADEQUATE EDUCATION BRINGS HOPEFUL SIGNS P. and C. Journal’s Editorial 2
Relief Sought From Burdensome Extra-School Activities 3
Salaries: Deputation To Premier Sought 3
PRIMARY APPOINTMENTS REPRESENTATIVE AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEW 3
Equal Opportunity: New Promotions list Proposed 3
BAND CONTEST DURING EDUCATION WEEK 3
DR. NORINGTON RETURNS 3
Talks With Officers On New Furniture Defects 3
Education JOURNAL OF THE N.S.W. TEACHERS’ FEDERATION 4
THE SOCIAL AND INDIVIDUAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE SALARIES OFFER 4
The “Offer” 4
EFFECTS OF ANTIHORROR LAW 4
Federation Activities: Former President's Appreciation 4
Conflict In Australian Education 5
PRECOCITY OF THE AMERICAN TEEN-AGER 5
Teacher Training and University Education 5
American Public Support For Education 5
Purchase Of Supplies By Non-departmental Schools 6
When Influenza Hit the Schools 6
SPEAKERS AT THE N.E.F. CONFERENCE 6
ISOLATED TEACHERS’ ASSOCIATION 6
Equal Pay and Shortage of Women Graduates 6
Advertising 6
SALARIES: Attend Your Protest Meeting! FEDERATION LIBRARY Recent Accessions 6
FEDERATION HEALTH SOCIETY Establishment of Hospital Table C 7
MILITARY TRAINING AND TEACHER SHORTAGE 7
GROUP CERTIFICATES Departmental Assurance 7
HONOURS TEACHING IN HIGH SCHOOLS 7
TERM MEETINGS: ASSOCIATION SEEKS SUPPORT FOR VIEWS 7
OVER-LARGE CLASSES Third and Fourth Class Schools’ Burden 7
STEWART HOUSE ANNUAL MEETING: SCHOOLS WERE ASKED TO BE REPRESENTED 7
WOMEN ASSISTANTS’ ASSOCIATION 7
ELECTION OF COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVES Notice to Members 7
P.S.A.A.A. NEWS 7
DR. DENNING TO STUDY IN U.S. 7
GOLF TOURNAMENT 8
POSITIONS VACANT 8
TESTIMONIAL TO MR. INSPECTOR S. HOSKEN 8
Advertising 8

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Education  

PAST PRESENT FUTURE  

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

Registered at the General Post Office, Sydney, for transmission by post as newspaper.  

AUGUST 14, 1957  

Vol. 38—No. 10.  

Price: Threepence.  

SKYSCRAPER SCHOOL OF GLASS AND CONCRETE  

There is only one way to  

spread out in crowded  

London —upwards! The  

London County Council  

super school at Tulse Hill  

does it with eight storeys  

which dominate the sur-  

rounding district.  

Tulse Hill—south-east  

London is secondary  

comprehensive school.  

Architecturally it is the  

most striking of Britain’s  

37 super schools. The  

building, small-scale re-  

plica of the United Nations building in New York, is 100 feet high and 300 feet  

long, but only 30 feet wide. The front is entirely of glass—there are 1,360 panels.  

The school accommodates 1,600 boys of from 11 to 18 years. Classes are  

restricted to 30. The school contains large assembly hall, five gymnasiums, ten  

laboratories, four art rooms. There are 105 loudspeakers and 120 clocks.  

Many people claim that this school is the pattern for schools of tomorrow.—  

From “Everybody’s,” London.  

All Members Invited To Attend  

Opening Of Annual Conference  

All members are invited to  

attend the opening session of the  

Federation’s 39 th Annual Con-  

ference at 9.30 on Monday morn-  

ing, August 26 the first day of  

the first week of the Spring  

Vacation in the Assembly Hall,  

Margaret Street, Sydney. The  

session will be addressed by the  

Minister for Education, the Hon.  

R. J. Heffron, the Federation  

President, Mr. D. A. Taylor, and  

the Director-General of Educa-  

tion, Dr. H. S. Wyndham.  

The business sessions will continue  

on the Monday afternoon, and on  

Tuesday and Wednesday, August 27  

and 28.  

ommonwealth aid for education, the in-  

spection system and working conditions of  

teachers will be discussed, these three topics  

having been selected by the associations from  

list of 76 suggestions.  

Representation  

All associations are entitled to repre-  

sentation at the Conference on the basis  

laid down by Rule 28 of the Constitution:  

one delegate for 40 financial members or  

less, with an additional delegate for every  

additional 40 members or part thereof.  

Annual Report  

In addition to the three topics referred  

to, the Conference will consider the Annual  

Report. This covers comprehensively the  

decisions and activities of the previous 12  

months.  

The introduction to the Annual Report  

says: “The'year 1956-57 has been busy one,  

year crowded with activity, year in which  

the Federation, its associations and in-  

dividual members have had to bestir them-  

selves in defence of education and teachers’  

conditions. To maintain and advance edu-  

cational standards all succeeding years, too,  

will be busy while ever the existing financial  

relationships between Commonwealth and  

States obtain.”  

Federal Conference  

The Conference will elect delegates to the  

Australian Teachers’ Federation’s Annual  

Conference to be held in Perth next Janu-  

ary, and will consider proposals for amend-  

ment of the Federation’s Constitution.  

TEACHERS’ PROBLEM IN CHANGING STRUCTURE  

In his report to the Council on  

July the President referred to  

problems arising from intermediate  

high schools being replaced by high  

schools.  

Mr. Taylor said there was also the pos-  

sibility of secondary schools being set up as  

comprehensive schools to include every type  

of pupil.  

If this was done the three-year secondary  

schools would disappear, and all secondary  

schools would become five-year schools. The  

problem of what to do with teachers who  

were in country intermediate high schools,  

home science schools, and junior technical  

schools would then arise.  

Mr. Taylor said there was proposal to  

have third promotions list and the Feder-,  

ation had some time before sought discus-  

sion with the Public Service Board since an  

amendment of the regulations would be in-  

volved.  

The Federation believed that consideration  

should be given to some proposal which  

would give all experienced secondary teach-  

ers the opportunity to continue in secondary  

work. The committee appointed by the  

Council to consider the matter recommend-  

ed that some effort should be made to see if  

combined list could be worked out for the  

women in the secondary service.  

No progress, however, had been made in  

the discussions with the Board. Further dis-  

cussions would be necessary, and in the  

meantime the Federation committee would  

be informed of the details and asked to con-  

sider the matter further.  

TEACHERS SHOCKED  

BY SALARIES “OFFER”  

Council’s Call For State-  

Wide Protest Meetings  

Declaring that the offer made by the Public Service  

Board for new Salaries Agreement for primary and  

secondary teachers was "an insult to the teaching service  

and denial of reasonable educational opportunities to  

the children of the State", Federation Council on August  

resolved to call protest meeting of members in the  

Sydney Town Hall at p.m. on Tuesday, August 20, and  

at appropriate country centres.  

The Council affirmed that the Federation was pre-  

pared to negotiate with the Board at any time on the  

basis of the claim made, and sought an immediate dis-  

cussion with the Premier, the Minister for Education and  

the Board.  

The offer, which the Federa-  

tion received on July 31, would  

give no increase in salary to the  

vast majority of teachers. The  

following analysis of the offer  

was presented to the Council:  

Analysis  

The offer contains no increase for  

four-years trained assistants except,  

possibly, some small increase for those  

on Gil, Gl2 and Gl3 rates, and any  

such increase would depend on the  

method of adjustment proposed by  

the Board.  

The offer does not even mention  

two-years trained assistants, and no  

increases are offered.  

The offer contains no increases for  

three-years trained assistants except  

£lO at the maximum.  

The offer retains the barrier in the  

four-years trained scale.  

The offer does not vary the per-  

centage of the male rate paid to  

women, except the final two rates  

paid to four-years trained special  

secondary assistants and the maxi-  

mum for two-years trained special  

secondary assistants, which have been  

varied to 90 per cent.  

Parities between the headmaster  

of third-class primary school and  

the maximum for the four-years  

trained assistant, headmaster second-  

class primary school and subject mas-  

ter, and headmaster first-class primary  

school (first year) and deputy head-  

master high school, are broken.  

The increases offered to men in  

promotion positions vary from £lO  

to £75, and to women from £8 to  

£66, except in the cases of special  

secondary assistants where there is  

variation in the female percentage.  

Offer Rejected  

After reports and discussion  

the Council unanimously re-  

solved:  

This Council rejects the Public  

Service Board’s offer and condemns  

it as an insult to the teaching service,  

and denial of reasonable education-  

al opportunities to the children of  

the State in that the offer will neither  

attract nor retain the teachers neces-  

sary but on the other hand will ac-  

centuate the resignation rate.  

‘“Council affirms that the Federa-  

tion is prepared to negotiate with the  

Public Service Board at any time on  

the basis of the claim made.  

“Further, that this resolution be  

conveyed to the Board in writing and  

by deputation.”  

Protest Meeting Called  

The Council further resolved:  

“In view of the nature of the Pub-  

lic Service Board’s offer Council re-  

solves to:  

“(1) Call protest meeting of teach-  

ers in the Sydney Town Hall at  

p.m. on Tuesday, August 20, and at  

appropriate country centres.  

“(2) Request school staffs and as-  

sociations to forward telegrams to the  

Premier, the Minister for Education  

and their M.L.A. condemning the  

offer and seeking their intervention  

with the Public Service Board to  

grant the claim.  

“(3) Seek immediate deputations to  

the Premier and the Minister for  

Education.  

“(4) Issue statement to the Press.”  

Approach to Minister  

It was decided that the deputation  

to the Board consist of the Salaries  

Committee.  

It was also decided that the three  

senior officers request the Minister  

to give permission for schools to  

close in time for teachers to attend  

the protest meetings.  

The Council also resolved to take  

all necessary steps to organise the  

protest meetings and held its first  

meeting for that purpose on the  

following Monday afternoon.  

Court Proceedings  

Following the Federation’s  

decision to call protest meetings  

in school hours, the Industrial  

Commission, on application by  

the Public Service Board, called  

compulsory conference for  

Tuesday, August 13, at 10 a.m.  

This issue of “Education” will  

be on the press at that time, but  

members will be duly informed  

of the outcome.  

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