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Hokitika Guardian, 28 March 1927, Page 1

JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS. LONDON, llarch 26. Australia and Now Zealand are closely interested in the main recommendations which are made in th report of Sir W. Iladow’s Government Committee on the education of the adolescent. These include the urging of the extension of the school age to fifteen years, of which the years from five to eleven should be spent in the elementary school and the years from eleven onwards in a secondary school'. Lord Eustace Percy has now announced that the Cabinet generally approves of the principle, hut it does not share the Committee’s fear that the local authorities will he unwilling to assent to the principle, except with legislative compulsion. He expresses the opinion that the local educational authorities should make it worth while for the children to do from the age of eleven to fifteen a post-primary course. The question ol" finance, which nec-es-sitarilv is dependent on economic, conditions, would arise afterwards. Sir James Parr (New Zealand High Commissioner) states that he and the Victorian State Education Department had virtually anticipated the Hadow report two years ago, but their recommendations have only tentatively been carried out. He says the proposals are of supreme importance, not only to Britain, but to Australia and New Zealand. It is believed, he says, that when in the latter countries the forty thousand teachers have studied the report. they will endorse the British teachers’ opinion that all 1 children above eleven years should enter higher super-senior classes, or junior high schools.