PERTH, WA: December 14, 1989
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The CEC in WA comes up with new plan to.beat teacher shortage
Scholarships bait . . .
The Catholic Education Commission of Australia Western hopes to overcome teacher shortages by encouraging highlyqualified graduates to become teachers working in special areas Catholic within schools.
ships for students undertaking Diploma in Education Studies at any of the four Western Australian tertiary institutions next year. The scholarships will have a value of $7000, including the full cost of tuition fees charged by the institutions. The Commission will Mr Eric Chidlow, offer up to 15 scholar- Senior Coordinator of
the Catholic Education Office's Staffing and Management section said the teacher shortage was especially noticeable in a number of specialist areas. "There is a great need for qualified manual arts teachers — last year there was only a handful of graduates in the manual arts field in the
whole of WA," Mr Chidlow said.
He added that it also is difficult to find teachers who are suitably qualified in the mathematics and science fields. "Catholic schools in the Kimberley region need highly qualified teachers with particular interest in teaching Aboriginal
children," Mr Chidlow said. "This need has been increased by recent developments which have seen secondary classes begin at Aboriginal community schools at Lombadina and Beagle Bay. With other Kimberley schools about to begin secondary classes, we are in even greater need of
teachers who are quali- science, mathematics, fied and interested in business studies, manual arts and Aboriginal eduAboriginal education." cation are especially The Catholic Education encouraged to apply. Commission scholarScholarship recipients ships are tenable for people proposing to will be required to be teach in either primary available to teach for two years in Western Australor secondary schools. ian Catholic Schools Graduates who are designated by the Education interested in a teaching Catholic career in the areas of Office.
Eager to learn.• • Balga residents know they have to be quick where St Gerard's new preprimary school is concerned. No sooner had principal Brian Preston dropped in to survey progress on the building than Gizelle Salame was being presented to him for enrolment by none other than her St Gerard's Year 1 sister Amanda. Gizelle is not the last to be interested in the pre-primary project. There is still Leanne, the latest arrival in the family of Tony and Debra Salame of Koondoola. "The pre-school will give a new lease of life to St Gerard's as it celebrates its 25th birthday next year," said Brian Preston. With teacher Miss Brolese and her aide Mrs O'Neill already out shopping for equipment it looks like the youngsters are going to have a ball. The centre will operate five days a week and only for the first term will the sessions be limited to mornings during the transition stage while the two assistants work with Year One. Fees are $95 per term for four terms with an enrolment and amenities fee of $35. Further information from the school 349 8706.
Govt spells out status of Uni BILL WILL GIVE NOTRE DAME ONLY A LEGAL STANDING The University of Notre Dame Australia Bill currently before the West A ustralian parliament gives legal standing to the proposed venture but does not guarantee its e xistence. On the other hand the Bill opens the way for negotiations with the ViceAustralian
Chancellors Committee and other bodies and also to launch its fund raising program. These points were made by the Minister of Education, Dr Carmen Lawrence during her second reading speech last week. She noted that the "viability of the univer-
sity will be dependent significantly on its capacity to attract substantial financial private endowment". Part 6 of the Bill, she pointed out, makes the university "financially independent of the government. It is not to receive direct funding consolidated from
revenue and is not to Dr Lawrence said the have any shortfalls in university has the potenoperating revenues made tial to grow from small up from the government beginnings to an outbudget". standing university in the tradition of Notre This would not prevent Dame University Indiana the university from app- whose support the lying from research government welcomed. grants, or from selling its Western Australia can services to the govern- take pride in the establishment of this first ment, she added.
Australian university.
Catholic
The government recognised, she said, the unique contribution Notre Dame Australia can make to WA by: • adding to WA's national and international reputation for excellence and unique-
ness in higher education; • enhancing the economic development of the state in general and Fremantle in particular, and providing a new source of much needed earnings; • contributing in a special way to Western Australia's social and cultural development.