SECONDARY EDUCATION

Hokitika Guardian, 19 June 1920, Page 1

SECONDARY EDUCATION

(Per Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, June 18

The Council of Education, met again to-day. On the general question of establishing district high schools the Council recommended that such a school be established if there are 20 pupils guaranteed, who have passed the (sth Standard, and if there is a reasonable prospect that the attendance will be maintained, to that number.

The following recommendations was also adopted:—“ That, a technical high school be established if fifteen pupils who have passed the 6th Standard are «uarifhteed and if there is a reasonable prospect of the attendance being maintained to that number; provided such school shall, not be established, if sufficient provision for such instruction already exists in the locality or district. Further recommendations adopted wore: “ That the headmasters of district high schools should receive an increase in salary proportionate to the responsibility of the position ; and that the present salaries and prospects of promotion for secondary assistants in district high schools were inadequate to attract a sufficient number of suitable teachers. The Council of Education has decided that the salaries of teachers and inspectors Ought to be raised to sueli a level as to place tlie recipients in at least as good a position as they occupied before the war.

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HOSTELS. CHRISTCHURCH, June 18. Referring to the education of children in the back” blocks, Mr Parr (Minister of Education) told the Canterbury Education Board to-day that he thought the time had come for the Department to review this problem. He had an idea lor some time that the Government would have to provide hostels as a better and morgtefficient and more economical method of solving the problem. He meant hostels near •■•nmc of the larger schools. He did not want to bring children into town schools. He believed this method would be quite as cheap as that of increasing the racitation, which 'was the only other way, and which would not get t l '° difficulty of inefficient teachers. He intended;to recom. mend that steps be taken in the direction indicated in one or two districts.

POLLARD’S PICTURES. j MONDAY. i In “The Probation Wife” to be j screened by Pollard’s on Monday next [ Norma Talmadge will appear in one of her best characters as “Jo”, “Every woman knows how to treat a husband, but very few know how to mistreat • one f” That was her advice based on her experience:—“Husbands are like Indians, You’ve got to treat ’em rough onco in a )vhile —to keep ’em on the job!” As a caged bird flies through the opened door to the sweet, prira ; air and sunshine, so Jo made her breax from the stern, unforgiving walls of a reformatory, to a future that, this time held for her promise, of better things for neglectful husbands. Its a . lesson or all wives to learn, and its j sound advice. The third series of the Beautiful Post Nature Studys will also be shown.