REPORT OF THE EDUCATION COMMISSION.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1960, 5 June 1880, Page 3

REPORT OF THE EDUCATION COMMISSION.

[By Telegraph.]

[from oue own correspondent, j WELLING l ON, June 4,

The final report of the Education Commission was laid on the table to-day. It deals first with the institations for University education, and advocates the creation in Auckland and Wellington of similar institutions to those in Dunedin and Christchurch. A large part of the report is occupied with secondary schools. It says that under ordinary circumstances the head master should regularly conduct some portion of the highest work of the school, but that his special duties in teaching should not occupy more than three hours a day. The report says it must be borne in mind that a demand will arise for the formation of now high schools. When a town and suburbs contained a settled population of 50u0, it will be desirable to establish a high school. The Commissioners state —1. That the New Zealand University ought not to prescribe a curriculum for a complete medical course, until provision be made for affording within the colony such medical education as will be recoguised by the Medical Council of Great Britain. 2. The time is not distant when a complete medical education must be supplied within the colony. It would not be wise to devote public money to the creation at more than one educational centre of any professorship or lectureship intended to provide medical instruction, such as does not come within the present course of the University. It would he better to strengthen the School of Mines at Dunedin than to attempt at present to establish a second school in any other part of the colony. We are unable to report favorably upon the proposals submitted to the Government by the Auckland Board of Education for the establishment of a School of A griculture in that district. It seems desirable that in a country like New Zealand, so greatly dependent on maritime pursuits, there should be a School of Navigation, and perhaps of Naval Architecture. Such a school might well be attached to tho proposed University College at Auckland. The report then deals with evening classes, scholarships, and endowments.