JUNIOR SCHOLARSHIP REGULATIONS
SOME CRITICISM. The Wellington District Teachers' Institute, at its meeting on Friday last, debated the following motion: —"That the N.Z.E.I. strongly condemns • tho present junior scholarship regulations, which place the country children at a grave disadvantage, and which tend towards the practice of special coaching." Mr. W. Rowntreo said that .figures he had obtained from Taranaki showed that that district would loso fifty per cent, of its scholarships under the present system. Miss Myers said tho Council of Education had been satisfied that conntry districts would not suffer, and that there was not the tendency to coaching. Mr W. Foster said lie co'ild not understand how tjie' system could be said not to involve competition. The marks, he understood, wore "standardised" after they left the examiner's hands. Mr. Rwiitree said there would be competition between districts, which would tend towards special coaching. Mr. H. A. Parkinson moved as an amendment the addition of the words: "The institute strongly reaffirms its opinion that junior scholarships be abolished." In this form the remit was adopted.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2636, 6 December 1915, Page 3
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176JUNIOR SCHOLARSHIP REGULATIONS Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2636, 6 December 1915, Page 3
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