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that provision should be made for ensuring a regular supply of the latter. The scheme put forward by the Commission to set up a training college for Gove nment teachers only, with a head who would not be, in addition, a headmaster of a school and with a highly qualified staff, sounds the reverse of cheap.
Nor is any practicable suggestion made as to how the present difficulty of recruiting graduates, without subsidising their university training, is to be surmounted.
The Government is at present
exploring the possibility of attracting University graduates by the offer of a one year's course of special training.
Paragraph 34. The desirability of this proposal is open to question and the Government after full consideration in Executive Council is unable to adopt it.
Paragraph 35. This matter has been considered in
Executive Council which was not in favour of the proposal.
The Board of Eucation as at present constituted does very useful work and it is not considered desirable to make its meetings public. It is already sufficiently representative of Educational interests.
Paragraph 36. With the exception of that in sub-
section (1), which Government does not feel able to adopt, all the proposals in this paragraph have been dealt with elsewhere in the Report on the Education Department.
Paragraph 37 (a). It is the Government's view that
teachers should only be appointed on educational grounds.
material is very good.
They are all paid in accordance with
the recommendations of the Salaries Commission.
The
Paragraph 37.
(b) See paragraphs 16 18.
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(c) There is in the 1932 Estimates a reduction in
the
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