SCHOOL PROBLEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2612, 6 November 1915, Page 6

SCHOOL PROBLEMS

FOR THE EDUCATION COUNCIL

FIXING OF BOUNDARIES

A great deal of interest and importance attaches to the first meeting of the Council of Education. The greatest task ahead of tho council is fixing of boundaries of tho nine education districts into which the Dominion is to be divided.

Tho council is also being asked by the Minister to consider a number of other quostions, as under :—

Regarding Scholarships.—(a) Whether those should he tenable at schools of secondary education other than secondary schools (as defined by the Education Act), district high schools, and technical high schools. (b) The question of excluding from candidature for junior scholarships those who are already in recoipt of free education at a secondary sohool, district high school, or technical high school, (c) What amendments, if any, should bo made in the Education Act in the general scheme for scholarships? *

What amendments, if any, should bo mado in the conditions of admission to and the tenure of -free places in the case of secondary schools, and technical schools respectively ?

At what classes of sohools, and on what conditions should secondary sohool certificates bo granted?

The council is also being asked to give consideration to the question of extending the scheme of-physical training and medical inspection so as to make hotter provision for advico aaid treatment for the amelioration of physical defects and subnormal development among school children.