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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 70
I.—Teachers and the University
I.—Teachers and the University.
(a) Facilities for obtaining Degrees of N.Z. University.
Owing to the representations of the Institute the special privileges conferred on teachers, permitting them to proceed to the M.A. degree, were extended for several years, when a considerable number of teachers proceeded to graduation, who would not have been enabled to do so had it not been for the intervention and influence of the Institute. In this way many teachers, who would not otherwise have had an opportunity of doing so, have been enabled to improve their professional status.
(b) The Pass in Elementary Science for E and D Certificates.
When regulations were issued by the Education Department in 1880, making it compulsory for all teachers to pass an examination in Elementary Science before they could receive a permanent certificate, your institute made arrangements with its President (Professor Black) for a course of lectures in Chemistry and a pass in this subject was held to exempt teachers from passing any further examination in Elementary Science.
(c) Saturday Classes for Teachers.
The very successful Saturday classes, which were kindly undertaken by Professors Shand and Black, and which were attended by a large number of teachers, would not have been held at all had it not been for the Institute.