SCHOOL TRAINING

Hokitika Guardian, 13 June 1933, Page 5

SCHOOL TRAINING

REPORT PBEP AREB BY EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE. (Per Press Association—Copyright). WELLINGTON, June 10. The executive of the New Zealand Educational Institute 1 prepared a statement in which it expresses the opinion that pursuance of the movement for establishing intermediate sciiouis, under the regulations, recently published, is inadvisable. It is ■urged that the country is in a state of financial embarrassment, and the establishment of the intermediate school system under the conditions obtaining cun only be affected at the expense of the existing high schools, and the already financially straineu pi .unary system. In the opniion of the executive, the substitution of the two-year far the ■three-year course is not regarded as being in the best interests of the j ■children, nor to be.in accord with the] accepted educational policy in Eng- ] land and other loading educational j countries, and is inconsistent with ‘ the policy formerly advanced by the I Educational Department, and approved by the Institute, i The removal of the pupils from 1 forms 1 and 2 from the charge of senior teachers, it is stated, is not in the best interests of the children. It is asserted that the regulations are ■inequitable, and unjustifiable as regards the proposed staffing, and the salaries scale. j Even stronger reasons against the ! pursuit, of the present policy are to i be found in the field of organisation j Slid .administration. It has been : long recognised by those 1 concerned in j education that the greatest hindrance fa effective working i 6 the division , of work under separate authorities. 1 The barriers that exist between pri- J inary, secondary and technical, schools me the source of many evils, and it is impossible that the education system can be worked to the best effect. .Education is, or ought to be, a continuance of t.he process, of growth. The barrier referred to imposes checks •and hindrance to the process, that ought to be .removed. The first essential is setting up a single authority to control ail educational effects of each ilocal area.