TRAINING FOR PEACE AVOCATIONS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 225, 17 June 1919, Page 5

TRAINING FOR PEACE AVOCATIONS

VISIT TO AUSTRALIAN CLASSES

EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY (By Telegraph-Press Aesociation--Copyright London, Juno 11 (delayed). Senator Penrce inspected the Agricultural Depot at Sutton Vcny, where five hundred members of the Australian Forces are being trained in orchard work, wool-classing, bee-keeping, and sheep and rattle-breeding. Mr. Pearce was impressed by the practical nature of the course and the keenness of tho men. General Wilson, President of the Imperial Education/Conference, stales that leading men of the Dominions interested in Army cducation.il schemes have decided to form an Imperial Education •Bureau, so that overseas universities may keep in closo touch with university happenings in tho Mother Country. Mr. 11. A. L. Fisher (President of the Board of Education) emnhasised the present unrivalled opportunities. There had been three million men receiving education at one time under the Army scheme, which was not created by the Government, but arose spontaneously from me men, who felt that otherwise they were losing time. The Australians and the men of other Dominions felt this particularly. The schemes by which the Dominion men visited British factunes, farms, and universities had been u great success, and had shown the full value ot co-operation, and which must not bn allowed to fizzlo after tho war. Equality in educational opportunities throughout the Empire must be established, and ■thev should eecuro the greatest interchange of students and teachers between the Dominions and the Motherland-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. .