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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
Issue
Vol. 41 No. 03 (23 Mar 1960)
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Contents

Education Journal of the N.S.W. Teachers' Federation 1
MODERN HIGH SCHOOLS 1
No Additional Loan Money for Schools 1
ASIAN LANGUAGES RELEVANT TO AUSTRALIAN INTERESTS 1
HOW TEACHERS' COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS ARE ALLOCATED 1
EXTERNAL COURSES WITH OVERSEAS UNIVERSITIES 1
MARGINS: DISCUSSIONS WITH BOARD; FEDERATION DECISIONS 1
Nation-wide Move to Solve Urgent Problems NATIONAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE IN SYDNEY 2
National Equal Pay Week Begins March 28 2
ACTION BY TEACHERS ESSENTIAL 2
REDUCTION OF TEACHING STAFF SHOULD NOT FOLLOW EMPLOYMENT OF CLERKS 2
WHY TEACHERS ARE SELECTED AS RETURNING OFFICERS 2
COMPLAINTS AGAINST TEACHERS; CLASSES 2
Rejected Students and the Service: What Premier Said 3
SALARY LOST BECAUSE NO POSITIONS AVAILABLE 3
FEDERATION INVITED TO ASIAN REGIONAL CONFERENCE 3
“Denial of Existing Facts”, Says Council in Reply 3
When a Teacher Is in Trouble 3
LEAVE FOR UNIVERSITY STUDY SOUGHT 3
Education 4
EMBARRASSED! "The Government has been embarrassed by the number of students offering for training as teachers." 4
PUZZLE: WHO'S EMBARRASSED MOST? 4
EDUCATION FOR A "TUMULTUOUS AND DYNAMIC AGE" 4
THE EXECUTIVE ELECTIONAND OBJECTORS WHO SWALLOW A CAMEL 4
Are Australian Schools Keeping Pace With Development? 5
Fraternal Greetings from Indonesia 5
A Rescue in the Surf From “The Northern Star”, Lismore, February 26 5
Advertising Agriculture 5
TROUBLE IN SOUTH AFRICA: APARTHEID, THE SJAMBOK, AND THE SURVIVAL OF ENGLISH 5
P. AND C. LEADER ON MODERN SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION 5
Education of “Huddled Humanity" 6
TEACHERS' 1½m. DOLLAR HOSPITAL 6
LETTERS FROM MEMBERS Education and Resurgence of Anti-Semitism 6
Headmasters of Class 3 Schools 6
From Far and Near 6
EDUCATION IN NEW GUINEA 6
Apprenticeship Problems, Service Conditions Federal Aid: Technical Teachers’ Decisions 7
FEDERATION AFFILIATIONS FOR 1960 7
NOTES FOR TEACHER TRAINEES 7
NATIONAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE: INTERSTATE VISITORS 7
AN 80-YEAR-OLD STORY IN A MODERN SETTING 7
TO RETIRING TEACHERS 7
BALMAIN TEACHERS' COLLEGE REUNION 7
NORTH NEWTOWN EX-STUDENTS' REUNION 7
Advertising 8

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Education  

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

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

Vol. 41, No. 3.  

MARCH 23, 1960  

Price: Threepence.  

MODERN HIGH SCHOOLS  

Section of the new Lithgow High School.  

Glass for winter warmth: the new high school building at Katoomba.  

No Additional Loan Money for Schools  

No additional loan moneys will be  

available to the States for school  

buildings as result of Loan Council  

deliberations last month.  

This information has been conveyed to  

the Federation by Mr. E. J. Bunting, Secre-  

tary of the Prime Minister’s Department at  

Canberra.  

The Loan Council was called together for  

special meeting on February 12.  

Prior to the meeting the Federation sent  

the following telegram to the Prime Minis-  

ter, the State Premier and the Federal  

Treasurer:  

“In view of the alarming shortage of  

school accommodation, particularly at the  

secondary level, the urgent need to build  

additional teachers’ colleges, and the inade-  

quacy of technical college accommodation,  

this Federation urgently presses for addi-  

tional loan allocations to the States so that  

the necessary buildings may be provided to  

ensure that Australian children and youth  

have the fullest educational opportunity.”  

Mr. Bunting’s reply was:  

“Following the recent Loan Council meet-  

ing Cabinet considered the representations  

made by the States against the background  

of the overall economic and financial situ-  

ation. As announced by the Treasurer,  

Cabinet decided that the Commonwealth  

could not agree to any increase in govern-  

mental borrowing programs for 1959-60,  

since this would entail an additional call  

on the Commonwealth Budget which will  

be in deficit this year. However, the Com-  

monwealth is prepared to support an increase  

up to an amount of £4 million in the bor-  

rowing programs of local authorities and  

of the smaller semi-governmental authori-  

ties which have essentially local government  

functions.”  

ASIAN LANGUAGES  

RELEVANT TO AUSTRALIAN  

INTERESTS  

The Executive has informed the  

Director-General that, in view of the  

geographical position of Australia,  

the Federation considers that it is  

relevant to the interests of Australian  

pupils that Asian languages be  

taught in schools.  

The decision followed consideration of  

letter from the Director-General in reply to  

Annual Conference resolutions on the mat-  

ter.  

Dr. Wyndham wrote: “I note the agree-  

ment expressed with the inclusion of French,  

German and Latin among the elective sub-  

jects for the proposed School Certificate,  

and would like to assure you that it is not  

the Department’s intention to restrict to  

French, German and Latin the foreign lan-  

guages which may be studied for either the  

proposed School Certificate or Higher School  

Certificate.  

"In general, the choice of additional  

foreign languages for study by secondary  

pupils will depend both on the relevance  

of the languages to the interests of Austra-  

lian pupils and to the existence of body  

of worthwhile literature for background  

Study in the languages concerned.”  

HOW TEACHERS' COLLEGE  

SCHOLARSHIPS ARE  

ALLOCATED  

We have been asked to ascertain  

and publish information concerning  

the methods by which teachers’ col-  

lege scholarships are allotted. The  

following information can be given:  

The scholarships are awarded on aggre-  

gate marks gained in the Leaving Certificate  

examination, including the subjects in which  

the student failed. It is therefore quite pos-  

sible for student who has passed in five  

subjects to be offered scholarship ahead  

of one who passed in six.  

At first sufficient number of students  

are offered scholarships to fill all vacancies  

at teachers’ colleges, but each student is  

given 14 days in which to notify acceptance  

or otherwise. In addition to this, some of  

the students successful in gaining Common-  

wealth scholarships will go to the University  

to train as teachers, and allowance has to  

be made for these.  

As refusals of teachers’ college scholar-  

ships are notified, the scholarships are  

offered to the students next in order of  

priority until the required number of  

places has been filled.  

EXTERNAL COURSES  

WITH OVERSEAS  

UNIVERSITIES  

The Executive has asked that  

arrangements be made with London  

and other universities outside New  

South Wales for external courses for  

teachers at departmental expense.  

The arrangement, it was asked, should  

apply to courses required for teaching pur-  

poses and not available at universities in  

New South Wales.  

This would be of great value in helping  

to overcome the existing shortage of gra-  

duate teachers, the Director-General was  

informed in recent communication.  

Dr. Wyndham has replied, however, that  

“funds are not available for scheme of  

this nature”.  

The question of reciprocal arrangements  

between universities is matter for the  

governing bodies and the vice-chancellors of  

individual universities, he says.  

MARGINS: DISCUSSIONS  

WITH BOARD; FEDERATION  

DECISIONS  

On January 28 the Federation's Salaries Panel con-  

ferred with the Public Service Board and presented argu-  

ments in support of the claim for increased margins. In  

reply the Board undertook to examine the Federation's  

case and communicate with the Federation at later date.  

Subsequently the three Public  

Service organisations—the Public  

Service Association, the Public  

Service Professional Officers’  

Association and the Teachers’  

Federation—received from the  

Public Service Board an offer  

which would increase salaries as  

follows;  

Existing Salaries—-Male  

£14.3.0 per week wage  

basis Increase  

£ £ £  

818 888 30  

889 928 40  

929 968 50  

969 1018 60  

1019 1298 70  

1299 1488 100  

1489 1693 110  

1694 1808 130  

1809 1918 150  

1919 2168 160  

2169 2293 180  

2294 2418 200  

2419 2518 240  

2519 2678 280  

2679 and above 300  

“It will be appreciated that there  

must be some slight variations in the  

above amounts in their application  

to scales, but these can be discussed in  

respect of the individual Agree-  

ments,” the Board wrote.  

Executive Decision  

The offer was discussed at length  

that evening by the Federation  

Executive which resolved:  

This Executive has examined the offer  

made by the Public Service Board in respect  

of salary marginal increases to teachers, and  

considers it completely unacceptable.  

The offer in no way approximates the just  

claims of the Federation. It falls far short  

of the increases granted to Victorian  

teachers, which, incidentally, did not grant  

full salary justice to the teachers in that  

State, and its implementation could only  

lead to grave worsening of the relative  

position occupied by New South Wales  

teachers in the salary and wage structure  

of this country and thus would adversely  

affect the teaching profession and education.  

Further, it should be noted that the  

Board, in its letter conveying the offer, states  

that it “feels very strongly that there should  

not be any substantial variation in the pari-  

ties established in 1957 (as amended in some  

instances in 1958)” and “to achieve this end  

it would be necessary to provide for all  

sections of the Public Service standard  

pattern of increase based on existing sala-  

ries.” Despite this statement, the Board, in  

its offer, has failed to adopt standard per-  

centage increase and in fact has adopted  

percentage increases varying from 24.9 per  

cent to 11.9 per cent, thus destroying the  

parities created by the Agreements of  

1957-58.  

Executive endorses the action of the  

General Secretary, taken in conjunction with  

the General Secretary of the Public Service  

Association, in convening meeting of Public  

Service unions to consider what action  

should be taken in order to secure proper  

increases.  

Executive also instructs the General Sec-  

retary to call meeting of the Salaries Com-  

mittee for Tuesday, March 1.  

Council Endorsement  

The Board’s offer, with the Execu-  

tive's decision, came before Federa-  

tion Council on March 5.  

The Council then resolved:  

"Council endorses the Executive’s  

resolution in respect of the Board’s  

salaries offer and directs the atten-  

tion of the Public Service Board to  

the widespread discontent developing  

throughout the Service as result of  

the offer.’’  

Further Conferences With  

Board  

On March representatives of the  

three Public Service organisations  

met the Board in conference when  

further and lengthy evidence was  

advanced in support of the three  

organisations’ claims.  

At the conclusion of the confer-  

ence the Board announced that it  

was not prepared to make another  

offer at that stage; it was not prepared  

to grant 28 per cent of current mar-  

gins, and in its view the offer gave  

substantial justice to teachers and  

public servants.  

further conference took place on  

March 15 when each of the three  

Public Service organisations was rep-  

resented by its President and General  

Secretary. There was still no change  

in the Board’s attitude. This meant  

that there was continuance of the  

delay and that teachers were being  

denied proper marginal increases.  

That evening the Executive re-  

solved: "The Executive regrets that  

the Public Service Board is not pre-  

pared to grant to New South Wales  

public servants an increase in current  

margins of even 28 per cent, nor to  

make an offer which approaches the  

28 per cent increase. We are now  

forced to carry on process of ex-  

planation of the situation to our  

members by the various means avail-  

able to us including the holding of  

general meeting of metropolitan  

members and of members in various  

country areas.”  

MARGINS —URGENT!  

METROPOLITAN MEMBERS: Attend the general  

meeting on Thursday, March 31, at 4.30 p.m., in the  

Lower Town Hall, Sydney, to support the claim for adequate  

margins. At the meeting the whole position will be fully  

explained.  

COUNTRY MEMBERS: You will be informed of the  

date of your local meeting.  

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N.S.W. Teachers' Federation & New South Wales Public School Teachers' Federation. (1919). Education : journal of the N.S.W. Public School Teachers Federation Retrieved April 5, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-655797868

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N.S.W. Teachers' Federation and New South Wales Public School Teachers' Federation. Education : journal of the N.S.W. Public School Teachers Federation Sydney: The Federation, 1919. Web. 5 April 2025 <http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-655797868>

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