CO129-503-6 Vacancies for schoolmasters- difficulty in filling posts- terms of appointment and service 17-3-1927 - 15-11-1927 — Page 15

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Co. 38. para 13

amay thing as

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Newbolt's

minute, I only wish to add to two:

(a) With regard to the use of advertisement

in the press I would refer to my

,

Memoranda to the Conference

As

ل

Jasar

on "Recruitment".

Chime

Press advertisement is a valuable means of

press

securing candidates for certain classes of

appointment. For others it has been found to

be a pure waste of time and money. Our

ŵe

exhausted attempts to advertise these vacancies

and those of Malaya have proved that advertise-

ment is worse than useless so far as they are

concerned. We have found this to be the case

with most Educational appointments, except

where a post is a particularly good and well

paid one, or where it is of such a specialised

nature that we are only likely to find a man

if we attract the attention of one who is

already holding a similar appointment and would

therefore not normally be in touch with any

agencies such as University Appointments Boards. I might add that at least one Headmaster of a

told me that he has

big Public School has had exactly the same

experience as we have regarding the value of

Press advertisement in securing staff.

(b) I would call particular attention to Paras.

2 and 5 in Captain Newbolt's minute. I fully

endorse what he says as to both, and if I remem-

ber right, the points he makes in 5 were strongly

endorsed as regard's all appointments in Malaya by Mr. Marriott and Dr. Winstedet.

during the

discussion which Mr. Ellis and I had with them

over the failure of recruitment for the Cadet

Service