Story: Primary and secondary education

Teachers' graduation, 1967

Teachers' graduation, 1967

Thirty young men and women received their teaching diplomas at a graduation ceremony in Nelson at the end of 1967, and posed for a photograph along with senior education figures (the men in the front row). Women graduates outnumbered men almost two to one – a trend that became more obvious from the 1960s.

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Nelson Provincial Museum, Nelson Photo News Collection
Reference: 1114 fr20
Photograph by Barry Simpson

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Nancy Swarbrick, 'Primary and secondary education - Teachers', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/36663/teachers-graduation-1967 (accessed 24 April 2024)

Story by Nancy Swarbrick, published 20 Jun 2012