Educational Course Criticised

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28259, 23 April 1957, Page 8

Educational Course Criticised

“The Press” Special Service AUCKLAND, April 22. “A week’s imprisonment” was how Mr A. R. Merrington described an educational course at Wallis House, Lower Hutt, at a recent meeting of the board of governors of the Seddon Memorial Technical College. “I have been there,” he said, warning fellow members against accepting an invitation from the Director of Education to represent the college at a course to be held from June 24 to 28. “We slept four in a room, the food was poor, the place is stuck away in the Hutt Valley and you cannot get away in the evenings.” The principal (Dr. H. M. Scott), who had also attended the course, said that he did not find it such a prison as Mr Merrington had. The course is for principals, senior teachers, officers of the department, members of technical school boards and industrialists Its main purpose is to evaluate the present stage of development of technical schools in relation to industrial needs; to estimate present and prospective needs of industry in regard to technical training; and to suggest a line of development of technical schools to meet those needs.