SECONDARY SCHOOLS

Hokitika Guardian, 21 May 1931, Page 6

SECONDARY SCHOOLS

VIEWS OF TEACHERS

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association)

■WELLINGTON, Alav 20.

The Executive of the Secondary Schools’ Association to-dav placed on record its high appreciation of the late Mr Firth, of Wellington College, over whose destinies he so ably presided for 28 years.

The Secretary was instructed to write to the University Registrar to request that each year the Principals should be supplied with a. statement of the percentage passes in each subject for all the candidates in the on trance examination. It was decided to support a proposal that the entrance examination begin on the second Tuesday of December each year, instead of on the first. The following recommendations were forwarded to tlie Director of Education. That English and arithmetic should lie the only compulsory subjects for the intermediate exam, as the present limitation of subjects is exercising a cramped influence on the whole curriculum, and certain valuable subjects are being completely crowded out. 'That .in view of the lact that Latin ' and/or' French. iareV required by tin Primary School syllabus, one of these to be allowed as an alternative to mathematics in the Training College, entrance examination. A-fcommittee was set up to; secure the assistance of the Secondary School T eachers in- -th6 direction of -preparing for .publication articles dealing with the development, purposes, aims and ideals of-secondary education.