OUR SCHOOLS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 834, 4 June 1910, Page 11

OUR SCHOOLS.

At the annual meeting of the Otago Branch of the New Zealand Educational ' Institute on June 1, a resolution was adopted urging that modical experts be appointed for the examination and treatment of school children. A lengthy discussion took place regarding a proposal that the Education Board be asked to classify teachers for promotion, , and that a committee of the institute be appointed to consider a suitable scheme ■of classification. Various opinions wore expressed, some favouring a scheme of classification for the whole of New Zealand, and others urging the division of the Dominion into four districts. Eventually it was decided that the Education Board's attention bo again directed to the urgent necessity for aschenio of classification and promotion of teachers as formulated by the New Zealand Educational Institute in 1908. Motions were also passed advocating that an elementary knowledge of physiology nml hygiene bo made compulsory in public schools, endorsing a "resolution of tho Auckland Institute, which expressed tho opinion that the issue of free school books was not a success as at present conducted, and that Class DexjMmmihou be taken in the snino way as Class C examination.—Press Association.