HIGHER EDUCATION

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2327, 8 December 1914, Page 7

HIGHER EDUCATION

• FOR THE WORKERS. ' 'A' circular has been issued 1 by/the secretary of the Trades and Labour Council (Mr. L. M. A. Rearden), drawing attention to tho proposal to initiate 'some scheme'that will form a working base for the placing of opportunities in the way. of deserving and capable working men and women of obtaining higer education. Tho movement had its genesis in England eleven years ago, arid has made such rapid growth thatin 1911-12 there were 35,000 men and women participating in higher educational work. This Workers' Educational Association is non-partisan in politics, unsectwian, and democratic in management. The Best results in this work are. obtained by the sympathetic co-operation of threo 'different organisations -. (1) The workers ivho desire higher education and are prepared to mako reasonable sacrifices to obtain it; (2) the University which provides competent lecturers and tutors for tho classos;. (3) the Governimcnt and tho municipal authorities which through their existing libraries provide adequate books and literature; for the use of the students. All these • bodies contribute also to the funds liecessary to carry out the work. _ Next month Mr. Meredith Atkinson, who is closely associated with the Australian movement, will visit the Dominion, to establish lcfcal organisations.He is due in Wellington on January 25, and will deliver three lectures here. The joint secretaries of tho movement 7 in Wellington are Mr. D. S. Smith and Mr. L. M. A. Rearden. It is hoped to set up an executive including Sir Robert Stout- (Chancellor of the University), Professor Hunter, Mr. H. H. Ostler (chairman of Victoria College Governors'), Mr. W. S. La Trobe (Director of tho Technical School), a primary school headmaster, a secondary school headmaster, Messrs. J. M'Kenzio, J." Read, A. H. Hindmarsh, P. Eraser, M. J. Mack, and W. T. Young. Oil Thursday night tho Trades Council heard speoches on the subject by Professor Huntor and Mr. D. S. Smith, and afterwards decidcd to further the scheme by all possible means. -