SCHOOL ENTRY AGE
INQUIRIES BY THE BOARD
By Telegraph — Per Press Association)
WELLINGTON, June 20,
The Education Board is collecting information concerning the effects of the raising of tlhe sfchool entry age, with a view, at the beginning of next year, of being able to gauge the decline in the attendances, and also * to what extent staffing and other economies can be made.
It is estimated by th e Minister of Education that the raising of the ago will result in an annual saving of about £120,000.
It ia anticipated that many of the larger schools will lose from two to three teachers next year .as the result of the reduced roll. It is likely that a reduction of the roll by about forty pupils will mean tlhe staffing being reduced by one teacher. I.t is learned that in the past, roughly, one in every three children under the age of six. the school' in the third term of the year.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 June 1932, Page 5
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