EDUCATION GRANT

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 117, 20 May 1939, Page 7

EDUCATION GRANT

RESEARCH WORK

CARNEGIE CORPORATION

The generous action of the Carnegie Corporation in advising that the original grant, made for five years, would be continued for a further five years is referred to. by the president of the New Zealand Council for Educational Research, Professor T. A. Hunter, in his annual report. .

"By this generous action the corporation has placed our council and New Zealand education under a further deep debt of gratitude," Professor Hunter states. "It is pleasing to think that what has been already accomplished has warranted the continued support of the corporation. It will be the aim of the council tp justify that confidence.

"It is fully anticipated that during the second five-year period addition al' sources of finance will be provided within New Zealand and that when the experimental years are over the results will ensure that research. will find a permanent place in the system of education in this country. "With regret I record the resignation of our director, Dr. C. E. Beeby, on his appointment to the position of Assistant Director of Education. Our. regret at losing his most valued services is lessened by the facts that he, now occupies one of the key positions j in the educational service and that we | may rest assured that the'co-operation I of the Department in our work, which has been a feature in the past, will be continued and developed." DIRECTOR'S REPORT. "The functions of the council as a clearing-house for information on educational matters continue to be of no little importance," states the annual report of the director. "Through its. relations with the International Institute of Intellectual Co-operation, the council was able to obtain specimens of children's art for an exhibition held first in Wellington and later throughout New Zealand. There is a constant demand within New Zealand for assistance in the choice of test material,' and for guidance in reading on specific topics. The library is in constant use, and the periodicals received are made available td research workers and others.

"The reports of the four educational officers in museums, show that the schools are anxious to take advantage of museum facilities as part of their work in natural science, geography, and history. Tens of thousands of visits have been made during the year by school children, and lectures, illustrated by films and lantern slides, have been a regular part of the instruction in the museums. Students from the teachers' training colleges have been allocated to the museums for part of their teaching practice—an illustration of the- cooperation the officers have received in their work. Cases of exhibits have been prepared and distributed to schools, arid lectures and radio talks have been regular parts of the officers' programmes. The directors and staffs 'of. the four museums have given much of their time in-providing material and assistance."