EDUCATIONAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XIV, Issue 2900, 16 February 1893, Page 3

EDUCATIONAL.

IXR PR£9» ASSOCIATION. Wellington, February 15. The result of the teachers 7 examination and Civil Service examination will be known next week. There are 675 teachers and 295 Civil Service candidates. For class E there are 264 candidates, for class N 167, to complete E 128, and to complete D 116 ; for the Junior Civil Service examination there are 230 candidates, and for the senior 65. Of the 675 candidates for certificates there aye only 60 who have never been in the service, and there are 47 who had been in but left ; 231 are pupil teachers, and 52 are Normal school students. The last quarter of 1892 was the first in the history of the colony that the average attendance reached 100,000, the figures feeing 100,902. The average for the whole year wag 99,066. At the end of the year there were 3178 teachers and 159 sewing mistresses employed in the public schools of the colony 5 1355 were males and 1823 females. Of these 258 boys and 787 girls were pupil teachers. The total salaries paid amounted to £315,400. Eunedin, February 16. At the Education Board today Dr MacGregor moved a series of resolutions with the object of stopping the craze for percentages in examinations, condemning the existing system as highly reprehensible ; also a resolution that teachers be notified that the board disapprove of the practice of keeping children in school for the purpose of specially preparing for the inspectors'examinations, and that inspectors be requestsd to discourage such preparation in every possible way ; that in future in estimating the efficiency of schools the Board will attach , more importance to the inspectors' reports on the tone, order, *nd discipline of schools than to the peicentage of passes of individual pupils ; that as an undue proportion of pupils' time ia now devoted to arithmetic and the technicalities of grammar the inspectors be requested to make their examinations on these subjects as simple and elementary a*