Time spent teaching in a rural school, formerly required of every state teacher.
I met my wife in Kaikohe, where she was completing country service
Example sentencesExamples
- The conditions under which teachers do country service will be reviewed in the context of salary claims received from the New Zealand Educational Institute.
- From the 1940s all teachers were required to undertake country service.
- The Party wants teachers who do any country service to be fast-tracked for permanency.
- These communities are often the first posting for graduate teachers sent to 'do their country service.'
- He was a "townie" teacher doing his country service at Duvauchelles' school.
- A specialist art teacher at a secondary school complained about the requirement that he either serve three years in a school approved for "country service", or forgo salary increments.
- This created dissatisfaction among country teachers who saw it as a subterfuge by city teachers to avoid country service.
- Teachers were trained for country service while at Training College.
- She explicitly embraced country service as her professional duty.
- A townie teacher doing country service pinned up a picture of a sheep and asked the class what it was.