SCHOLARSHIPS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1119, 8 July 1913, Page 2

SCHOLARSHIPS.

The reports of the Wanganui Education Board are to hand, and deal comprehensively with all branches of its administration. The subject of scholarships receive some attention from the inspectors, which should receive the careful consideration of head teachers. The report states: “ Eighty-seven candidates presented themselves at the Junior Scholarship Examination, and of these fifty-eight, or 66.6 per cent., passed, and tweuty-tevo, or nearly

40 percent, of those who qualified, passed with credit —that is gained at least 60 per cent, of the total possible marks. The latter result is satisfactory, inasmuch as it shows that in this department of work Wanganui holds its own among the larger education districts. It is, however, hardly satisfactory that only twenty-five schools entered the lists, and still less satisfactory that of these only two were below Grade IV. It is very disappointing that the small schools, with a Standard VI. roll of approximately 133, can produce not a single qualified candidate. Had there been one such candidate he would have secured a Junior National Scholarship.” Here is another paragraph touching on the same subject:—“We have some misgiving regarding the teachers’ treatment of the legitimate claims of scholarship. In our schools there is to be found all the year round in one or more of the classes a varying number of more' or less brilliant pupils. We have reasou to fear that the claims of these pupils to special attention and special advancement are often overlooked. . . . . . Some of the candidates qualify by the skiu of their teeth, so to speak, or fail altogether, and so scholarship money, and the reward of scholarship, which are better thau money, are lost to the district.”