TECHNICAL CLASSES
CAPITATION SYSTEM OF PAYMENT CONDEMNED. "That tho present system of payiag capitation on students' hour attendances bo abolished, and this conference adopt some' other system as suitable to replace it." This proposal was submitted jesterday to tho conference of directors of technical schools, and was discussed at some considerable length. At present' tho cost of technical education is borne almost wholly by the general Government, and the payment is by capitation on students in classes. Tho scheme does not work very fairly or very easily, and there was evidenco yesterday that the scheme was not always economical. There was ?. suggestion that payment should bo made on _ a "teacher-hour" basis, but the objection to this was that it'was feared that the Department would not pay teachers for smlill classes. At present big classes show a profit, and the profit is used in big schools to keep up small classes for advanced pupils, and these classes are considered to be of great valuo to the community. The great objection to the system as urged was that it entailed a great burden of clerical labour in tho compilation of returns for the claiming of capitation. Another dedefect in the system is that class attendances are of paramount importance, and pupils are kept in classes when they have no lmno of benefiting by them. ' Tho controlling authority of a' school will not allow a student to bo nut out of a class, nor will a teacher do it when the loss of a mtnil menus loss of feci'. It was admitted that there were defect": in the present system, but no member of tho confprpnro was ouitn suro what new ono ought to reolace it. The motion was carried.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 298, 5 September 1918, Page 5
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287TECHNICAL CLASSES Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 298, 5 September 1918, Page 5
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