Education

South Canterbury Times, Issue 7070, 16 February 1893, Page 3

Education

IMPORTANT (Bv DUNBDlN^eh^^^ At the Education Board to-day, Mr Macgregor moved a series of resolutions with tho object of stopping the craze for percentages in examinations. He condemned the existing system 68 highly reprehensible. The resolutions were: That teoohera be notified that the Board disapproves of the practice of keeping children in school for the purpose of specially preparing them for the inspectors’ examinations j that the inspectors be requested to discourage such special preparation in every possible way ; that in future, in estimating the efficiency of schools, the board will att ioa more importance to the Inspectors’ reports on tho tone, order, and discipline of the schools than to tho percentage of passes of individual pupils ; that as an undue proportion of the pupils' time is now devoted to arilhme ic and the technicalities of grammar, the In specters bo requested to make their examinations in those subjects as simple and elementary as is consistent with a fair interpretation of tho standards ; that to enable the Inspectors to devote more time to inspection, as distinguished from examination, the Board suggest to the Minister the advisability of amending tho regulations, by abolishing all individual pass examinations except in tho ' higher standards. ' The elections to the Education Board indicate the return of Messrs Stenhouse, Green, and Mackenzie.