EDUCATION BY POST
CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL From a small beginning with fewer than 40 pupils 17 years ago, the Education Department’s correspondence school has become one of the largest educational institutions in New Zealand and to-day has nearly three thousand pupils. The students are trained from the beginning of their school days to the standard required for the higher leaving certificate. The subjects taught cover a wide and . comprehensive range of studies, and . children living in back block districts ; and isolated parts of the Dominion. ’ arc able to receive a good education. ’ An exhibition of the work done by the pupils of the correspondence school was opened this week by the Minister of Finance,' the Hon. W. Nash, in Wellington. It covers the whole range of subjects taueht v the school from the work of five-year-old children to that of students who have completed their studies in technical and cultural subjects.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20115, 8 December 1939, Page 12
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150EDUCATION BY POST Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20115, 8 December 1939, Page 12
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