ADOPTION At BRADFORD

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 37, 13 February 1930, Page 17

ADOPTION At BRADFORD

(From"The-Post's? Representative.) . -..... V.:; LQNDON, -12% JJeVScmber. "Sir" "Janfes" Pafr~"spenT"a lew" days at Bradford last-: iveek; investigating educational matters. That city, with a population -of 200,000, bad made a change: in * educational --aottattefrs from the-.'old ■ ideas ...to'.'- the .'n«.w. The High Commissioner is a report to Mir. AtmprOi (Minister of' Education) on his as he is of the opinion they may be of some value to the New Zealand Educational Department. , ,j... "There, are about- ; 30,000 children concerned in the new scheme,'' said the High Commissioner.-'Tor a year they have been working under,thifj.-new system. Briefly," they are "carrying out the idea I' •'.myself,".. 'while; :..,Minister of Education, advocated -in 1920; when I took, office.' Theidea is. that' a much1 sounder education is given to the child if the primary period stops at the age of eleven years, and the balance of the course is a junior, secondary, or technical, education, up':to'■ 14 or 15 years oif age. ."."■ ... '.■.:;•■■:■ -' "I found tliat the'Bl-.ldford schools were of the' type of the Kowhai Junior High School at Aucklanti.-'-l' There are many schools of that type. The selection of the pupils is'■■made when they aro eleven, and the particular type of school they.-are then to,;go .t.o ia set-tied'shortly-.afterwards.',J;.'..-:.' :.':''l ;found- that- the ■local.'.authorities and'tthe.'.tea'chers'wer'ei'kecii-to'give the new. r'systenr.'every chanc-c" ' .t6'' ds velbp, and'most of .the"people I- 'met 'were enthusiastic about the benefit the children were reciving under the new scheme!" ~ Sir : James Earr ■ added that' since the Hadow • Report, the English educational authorities- had' a-11; 'a^;6pted£':the new "principle aiia-1 -we're '-■nqiv-jbng^ged in working- if:6ut in .Vafioft"s"%ayS;.all over England. - ,-■ • - 4—'■--•' c-"; .' ''.If New,-'Zealand.;is.-to.:progress," said.the High.Gommi'ssfoiver-j ''and keep in .line/.with modern educational methods she must look tbr'her-laurels." >