No Applicants

He says that the number of applicants for teaching positions in New Zealand universities is far too small to meet the current expansion programme.

Between August, 1964, and mid-July, 1965, out of 184 positions advertised 76 were not filled, he says.

Professor Sinclair also says that the Association of University Teachers made submissions to the Government in July, 1965, but nothing has been done.

The University Grants Committee has set up a committee to review university staff salaries and related matters and to report direct to the Government giving recommendations where necessary.

A spokesman for the University Grants Committee told Salient that the new committee will be an independent body accepted by the Government as the sole investigating authority within its terms of reference.

The committee will:

(a)	Undertake for Government a general review of salary scales of academic staff at intervals of not more than three years commencing 1966. Reports of these reviews will be published by Government.
(b)	Advise Government from time to time on any matters relating to the salaries of academic staff and other conditions of employment which it (the committee) considers relevant.