JUNIOR NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIPS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 19, 17 October 1918, Page 6

JUNIOR NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIPS

Proposal to; limit-stodents. ['■ : . ; •Objection was raised', at. .the./Wellin'g!':'ton Education Board yesterday'to the I -: proposal of the Department of EducaR'.tion' 1 -to limit entries ,for Junior..Na- ' vtioiial Scholarships from the pupils in i r 'the Sixth Standard to 10 per cent, of i-v the students; in other words,' to the ji pupils whom the headmaster reckoned [.•"■; were- certain to paes.' . !\f-The. chairman of the hoard. (Mr. T. i : Forsyth)'said, that while the. primary ■''; schools had heeded the instruction the ; 'colleges had taken little notice of it. ! 'He think, that headmasters i/rWould 'send for. examination children ; 'whom they did not expect to* pass. |: :Mb It. A. WriEht expressed the 'opinion that a ten. per cent, limitation ; ..was far'too severe.-: ' , i"'■•'■' Mr. R. M'Callum said that all :- Standard VI children had a right by j. ; law to enter for these scholarships, and i if refused pormiasiijfi to exercise the '. right they could contest the question : - in the Supreme Court. ■'".' Mr,F. H. Bakewell (chief inspector) [ : Baid,that the had been 1 :;; made by tJie inspectors with the idea Tof relieving the great pressure of ■ ■ work. Last year the whole of cno ; >; Sixth Standard had been sent up for | 'examination, and only 5 per cent, had : ; qualified. It had not been intended •'that the suggestion should be taken i literally, but some reasonable, restric- • tion should be made. ': ' On the suggestion of Mr. \V. _H. ! Field it was decided to protest against I. ' the action of tho Department in making i-'-la limitation.