EDUCATION REPORT.

Patea Mail, Volume VI, Issue 536, 22 June 1880, Page 3

EDUCATION REPORT.

The final report of the Itoyal Commission on Higher Education has been laid on the table of the House. The report which is a very bulky document, deals at considerable length with the institutions for University education, and advocates the erection of similar institutions in Wellington and Auckland to those in Dunedin and Christchurch. The question of secondary schools occupies a large space in the report. The Commissioners recommended that tinier ordinary circumstances the headmaster should conduct regular some part, of the highest work of the school 1 but that his special teaching should not absorb more than three hours a day. In reference to the probable demand for the formation of new high schools, it is recommended that when any town with its suburbs contains a settled population of uOOO a high school should bo established. The opinion of the Hew Zealand University, ought not to preprescribe a cirriculum for a complete midieal education must be supplied within the colony. They think it would not be wise to devote public money to the creation of more than one educational centre of any professorship or lectureship intended to provine medical instruction such as docs not come within the present crurse of the University, they advise that the school of mines at Dunedin should be strengthened rather than that any attempt should be made at present to establish a second School of Mines in another part of the colony They arc unable to report favorable upon the proposals submitted to the Govermcnt by the Auckland Board of Education for the establishment of a School of Agriculture in that district, but they deem it desirable that in a country such as Hew Zealand, which is so dependent on maratimo porstits a School of Havigatition and, possibility, also, Navy Architecture ought to be provided, and they suggest that it might be attached to the proposed collcdgc at Auckland the remainder of the report deals with scholarships, endowments, evening classes, and other matters of detail. —Post.