PROFICIENCY EXAMINATIONS
NEW REGULATIONS.. SEVERELY CRITICISED. <By Telegraph —Per Press Association) DUNEDIN, October 29. The new proficiency examination regulations brought down within a few weeks of that test without warning are severely commented upon by teachers as an unfair attempt to effect economies at the expense of children well fitted for a secondary school career. There will be no accrediting this year and many will fail.
One headmaster said that a similar attempt to decrease passings was made some three years ago when the task of stiffening the examination was left to inspectors. Otago officers were the only ones to set the new standard with the result that the percentage of Otago passes fell enormously. This teacher described the provincial inspectorial attitude at that time as “Damnable.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 October 1931, Page 6
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127PROFICIENCY EXAMINATIONS Hokitika Guardian, 29 October 1931, Page 6
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