COUNCIL Of EDUCATION

Hokitika Guardian, 12 June 1926, Page 1

COUNCIL Of EDUCATION

[by TEI.I'.GItAI'II —t’Klt ntESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, June 10. So that the educational systems ot other countries could be studied and if desirable applied with beneficial results in New Zealand, an annual visit of the Director of. Education to Europe and America was favoured by .Mr h. Milner, who said at the Council of Education, that the Railway and Post and Telegraph Departments had sent men abroad. When a similar suggestion was advanced in respect to education however, efforts at the restriction of finance were made.

Mr Kirk said a young man should go instead of leaving the trip to a man who would retire almost ■ immediately upon his return. in was pointed out that only once since 1877 had an educational man been scot from New Zealand to England; that was in 1010. -Members desired : to have two men sent overseas, one, the Director of Education and the other a young man who would he round useful in later years. A resolution asking that a director should lie accompanied by at least one other educationalist upon his tour was passed. An application by the Wanganui Technical School Board to have sole control of the institution removed from the Wanganui Education Board and placed in control of the Board of Managers alone, was discussed at some length an allegation being made that the present administration was miwieldly. The council decided to refer the matter to a small committee to investigate. The conference passed n remit recommending the Minister to provide regular refresher courses for teachers, and asking that a beginning he made bv arranging for training colleges to provide with the assistance of inspectors and other specialists for fortnightly courses for young teachers, who have completed five years’ service since leaving college.

A romit proposing Unit in smaller tr'di nif-jil liip;li schools the staffing slionld ho arranged on a basis of one toaohor to twenty-five pupils was .adopted.