SCHOOLS AND INSPECTORS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 191, 2 November 1927, Page 13

SCHOOLS AND INSPECTORS

COMMITTEES KEEPING TOUCH EDUCATION BOARD MEETS A resolution giving school committees power to submit to the inspector a report on the educational work of the year, was defeated at to-day’s meeting of the Auckland Education Board. Mr. E. C. Banks, moving the resolution, said that inspectors were not in touch with the schools. A report from the committee would give the inspector an opinion of the school work and of the teachers. It was decided that school committees should be requested to meet the inspector when he came to their school. The department advised that the request of the Primary Schools’ Committees’ Association for greater representation on the council of education for bodies outside the teaching profession, would receive careful consideration when further appointments were necessary. The department was unable to grant the board’s request for the appointment of two more organising teachers. The Minister wrote stating that the request for the insertion in the Education Amendment Bill of a clause giving boards the right to hold conferences would have his serious consideration. A telegram was received from the department withdrawing permission ‘for nine students to leave training college at the end of 1927 after one year’s training.