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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 29, No. 6. 1966.

Teacher colleges

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Teacher colleges

The Student Teacher Association of New Zealand, a national training; college organisation has been set up. Its aim is to promote closer ties betwen the various training colleges and to facilitate the discussion and solution of common problems. The association was established at a national congress of executives held in Wellington in May.

Cooperation between training colleges and universities was one of the questions considered. The congress heard a paper by the president of NZUSA. Ross Mountain. It was decided that it was essential to establish more contact on a local level before a national union of students could be considered worthwhile.

Training executives feel that as a united body they will have a stronger bargaining voice with staff, education boards, the government, the New Zealand Educational Institute. and in the possible formation of a national union of training college and university students.

Discussions on education and teacher organisations included papers by Ian Forsythe on teacher unity and Jack Shallcrass: "Education — the modern dodo." Greater cooperation in the fields of sport, cultural activities and publications was proposed. Congress decided to set up a national publication, and further sporting fixtures between universities and training colleges.