TECHNICAL EDUCATION

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 40, 10 May 1927, Page 9

TECHNICAL EDUCATION

CONFERENCE OPENED Press Association WELLINGTON, To-flay. The annual conference of the Technical School-Teachers’ Association opened to-day, Mr. Alexander McFa.yen (Dunedin) presiding over forty delegates. /n his presidential address, l.e ferred to the setting up of advisory committees in connection with various industries, and the co-operation of those industries with them. The institution of a set of examinations and certificates in technical subjects should raise the standard and gain greater sympathy, and regulation from the employers’ certificates would take the place of the City and Guild qualifications now recognised in many \pprenticeship awards. The lack of regulation by the employers was largely due to the lack of knowledge of vhat was being done in technical schools. An increase in scope of the board’*? technical activities was suggested. Papers were read by Mr. A. J. Thompson (“Commercial Education”), Mr. T. L. James “Shorthand”), nifa Mr. T. B. Strong (“Earlier Days of Technical Education”). Regret was expressed at the llness of the president of the association, Mr. G. J. Park, by the chairman, who also referred to the loss sustained to the cause of education by the resignation of Mr. John Caughley (formerly Director of Education).