EDUCATION REFORM.

North Otago Times, Volume CVII, Issue 17169, 28 March 1927, Page 4

EDUCATION REFORM.

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SOME IMPORTANT PROPOSALS.

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Received Sunday, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, March 26. Australia and New Zealand are closely interested in the main recommendations of the report of Sir E. Hadow's Government , Committee on the education of adolescents urging the extension of the school age to fifteen, of which the years from 5 to 11 should be spent^in elementary, and from 11 onwards in secondary schools. Lord Eustace Percy has now announced that Cabinet generally approves of the principle, but does not shard the committee's f-^ar that the local authorities will be unwilling to assent except with legislative compulsion. He expresses the opinion that local authorities should make it worth while for children to do a from 11 to 15 post primary course. The question of finance, which necessarily was dependent on economic conditions, would I arise afterwards. | Sir James Parr states thai he and i the Victorian State virtually anti- | cipated the Hadow report two | years ago, but their recommenda- : tions were only .tentatively carried ! out. The proposals are, he says, of supreme importance not only lo ; Britain, but to Australia and New Zealand. It is believed that when the latter countries' forty thousand teachers have studied the report they will endorse the British teachers' opinion that all children above 11 should enter the hisher super senior ' classes or junior higb schools.