New School Regulations.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 344, 20 June 1894, Page 2

New School Regulations.

(Per Press Association.) Wellington, June 19. The new standard regulations for . schools, which are to come into force on the Ist prox., have now received the approval of the Cabinet. Most of the changes that have been made are on the lines recommended by the recent conference of inspectors. Pass examinations for Standards I. and 11. are in future to be conducted by the teachers of the several schools, the examination of the rest of the standards being left in the hands of inspectors as before. The use of percentages to indicate the results of examinations is to be abandoned, the new regulations in this respect agreeing with the regulations in force from 1878 to 1887. In Standard IV., grammar, which was made the pass subject, is made the class subject and geography, which was the class subject, is made the pass subject, the most difficult part of the geography being transferred to Standard V. The composition for Standard IV. is more precisely defined. Part of Standard IV., geometrical drawing, is transferred to Standard V. Solid geometry remains in Standard VI., but as an alternative and not a compulsory subj ect. Knowledge of simple • geometrical terms, formerly prescribed for Standard 111., has been reinstated. Arithmetic has been lightened by removing mental arithmetic to the. position of class subject. Stress is laid upon the comprehension of langu* age of reading lessons, and the require* went of elementary knowledge of social economy in Standard VI. is emphasised. The decisions of iuspec- ... tors with regard to tests to be applied in arithmetic and spelling have been, for the most part accepted. ' <