TRAVELLING SCHOLARSHIPS.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14888, 30 January 1914, Page 9

TRAVELLING SCHOLARSHIPS.

• —*-■■" « — . (special to "thk tress.") WANGANUI, January 29. With reference to a suggestion from the Educational Institute regarding travelling scholarships in education, Mr G. D. Braik, Director of Education, ro])orted to laet night's meeting of the Wanganui Education Board, as follows:—"It appears to mc that the scheme of tho Institute provides for a reward for efficiency, zeal and service rather than for n scholarship, strictly 60 called. Efficiency and zeal merit recognition, and so far the Institute's scheme deserves support. - Education scholarships should, I think, be awarded to young persons, men or women, who have been successful pupil teachers and successful training college and university students, and who aim to make teaching their life work. Before holding a travelling scholarship in education, a student should be required to teach for a period of (say) five years, and in return for the scholarship should be required to fulfil definite obligations in the investigation of prescribed spheres of educational activity. The student should further be reauired to present a report to the Minister of Education on his return to the Dominion, and there to resnrne his educational. work. Such scholarships would b« of material and lasting benefit, and would So much to place the teaching work and stains on a higher plane than they now occupy."