Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Vol. 37, No 24. September 18, 1974

Secondary Teaching

Here is a career that uses your knowledge; a career with probably more job satisfaction than any other. A career in which your academic, artistic and sporting interests can be used to the full.

Teaching offers permanent lifetime employment in a service that's vitally important to the future. It offers variety and scope for initiative. It offers freedom to develop special interests, and real opportunities for advancement and self-improvement.

Then there's the generous salary scales and the payment while you train. And the long holidays.

The Teaching Capacity

Secondary teachers usually specialise in a subject or group of subjects. English, science, maths, languages, social studies, art, music, physical education, homecraft, commercial subjects, woodwork and metal work, or agriculture. Some teachers undertake special responsibilities in connection with school libraries, or as careers advisers. Others specialise in' the expanding field of guidance counselling, while a few become child welfare officers, or education officers in the armed forces. There are opportunities, too, in teachers' colleges and in the secondary inspectorate.

Training & Allowances

1.	Division U : Full time university study towards a degree or diploma, followed by a year at a teachers' college.
2.	Division B: A three-year course including teacher training and university study at either Auckland or Christchurch.

If you have a university degree, there is a 1 -year teacher training course. Allowances:

Graduates
3 year degree	$3,880
4 year degree	$4,433

If you have an incomplete degree, you can continue your university study whilst teacher training in Division B (training allowances are the same as for Primary) or get financial assistance to complete your degree full time, then do teacher training, with a Secondary Teacher Studentship (Division U).

Salaries

Basic Salary Scales at 1 July 1974 for a trained teacher with a Bachelor's Degree are:

First year	$5,135	Fifth year	$6,954
Second year	$5,655	Sixth year	$7,472
Third year	$6,087	Seventh year	$8,079
Fourth year	$6,605	Eighth year	$8,684

If eligible, a married allowance of $140 is paid. Higher rates are paid for positions of responsibility. In secondary schools with rolls in excess of 850 pupils, the basic salaries for Principals and Deputy Principals are: