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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 98

SCHEDULE.

REGULATIONS.

CERTIFICATES : GENERAL CONDITIONS.

1. CERTIFICATES shall be of five classes, determined by mental training and attainment, and distinguished, from the highest to the lowest, by the letters A, B, C, D, and E; but no certificates of Class E shall hereafter be issued except to teachers that have already passed the examination for Class E under former regulations, or its equivalent.

2. The division of a certificate within the class shall depend—first, with the limitations noted in clause 5, on the number of years during which the teacher has been actually engaged in school-teaching, one mark being assigned for two years’ service, two marks for five years, three marks for eight years, and four marks for eleven years and upwards; and, secondly, on the judgment of an Inspector, such judgment being expressed by marks numbering 2, 4, 6, 8, or 10, according to the Inspector’s estimate of less or greater efficiency; and, the marks of both series being added together, fourteen marks shall qualify for the first division, eleven marks for the second, eight marks for the third, five marks for the fourth, and three marks for the fifth. In assigning marks for efficiency the Inspector will use the number “2” as a substitute for the lowest, and the number “10” as a substitute for the highest term in a series of terms beginning with “tolerable,” and ending with “excellent”; and an Inspector may put “0” in the place of a number to indicate that he considers the candidate to be incompetent.

3. Marks for efficiency can be given only by the Inspector in whose district the teacher is at work, except that the Inspector-General of Schools may assign marks for efficiency, not exceeding four, to teachers whose practical skill is sufficiently attested by certificates granted by authorities acting outside the Colony of New Zealand, and that he or any other Inspector of the Education Department may also assign marks to teachers in schools inspected by him.

4. On the thirtieth day of June in each year teachers who by length of service, or upon a more favourable judgment expressed by the Inspector before the thirty-first day of May, shall have become entitled to promotion to a higher division shall receive such promotion.

5. Notwithstanding anything in the preceding clauses, no teacher shall be classified until he has taught for two years in a school with an average attendance of not less than sixteen inspected by an Inspector of an Education Board or of the Education Department, nor until he has been assigned at least two marks for practical skill in teaching. No teacher shall be placed in Division 2 until he has had an experience of at least eight years as a teacher in such a school, and no teacher shall be placed in Division 1 until he has shown, to the satisfaction of his Inspector, ability to take charge, as head teacher, of a school with more than 150 children in average attendance; and the mark “10” shall not be given unless the Inspector is satisfied that such ability has been shown; but the teacher need not have been actually in charge of such a school. For the purpose of this clause a course in a training college for teachers shall count as ordinary service of equal length, and a period of pupil-teacher service as service of half its length.

6. For the purpose of the preceding clause, the Inspector-General of Schools may, on equitable grounds and on the production of sufficient evidence, grant recognition for a more or less limited extent to a period of service in schools other than those therein defined; and the value to be attached to such service shall be determined by him in his discretion, as occasion may arise.

EXAMINATION REQUIREMENTS.

7. The requirements for Class D are set forth in clauses 21 to 24 hereof.

8. The requirements for Class C are set forth in clauses 25 to 36 hereof.

9. (i.) The examination for Class B shall be the pass examination for a Bachelor’s degree in the University of New Zealand, together with an examination in the following subjects as required for Class C: Vocal music, drawing, elementary human physiology, methods of teaching, and the principles and history of education; provided (a) that a candidate shall not be required to sit again for examination in any of