EDUCATION COMMISSION.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 484, 20 July 1912, Page 7

EDUCATION COMMISSION.

INSPECTOR-GENERAL'S SUGGESTION.

Mr Hogben, Inspector-General of Schools, reviewed before the Education Commission some suggestions which had been put forward. He said community of interest would be sacrificed by dividing education districts into four. It would be a species of sthe centralisation with all the attendant evils of undue centralisation. A proper division could be best made in connection with a general scheme of lpcal government, under which education expenditure could be charged to local rates. Assuming that education would come under the local government Bcheme, he made the following suggestions: —1. The present education districts, boards and schools committees to be abolished, with the reservation that he had some doubts on the question of committees. 2. New education districts to be conterminus with new counties. 3. An education board to be constituted in each education district as follows:—Six members chosen by the country council from amongst its own members, two members elected by primary teachers of the public and primary schuols in the country, two members elected by all other certificated teachers employed for not Ibbb than 20 hours a week, one member appointed by the professorial board of the University College to be appointed annually; half of the members before mentioned to retire each year, the council to fill vacancies, but not from its own members, if the bodies named fail to elect them within 60 days.