NEEDS CLOSE STUDY

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1052, 16 August 1930, Page 1

NEEDS CLOSE STUDY

POSITION OF NON-PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS PRESERVING INDIVIDUALITY “I really have not had time to find out what our position will be,” commented Miss E. H. Sandford, of the Diocesan Girls’ High School, Epsom, when asked this morning how private schools of the nature of the Diocesan High School would be affected by the great changes proposed in the administration of New Zealand’s education system. “The subject is so big,” Miss Sandford added. “To arrive at any Judgment on the report would take a good deal of time.” Miss Sandford pointed out that the recommendations dl the Parliamentary Committee involved such enormous alterations in the systhem that they undoubtedly would require earnest consideration by educationists. Undoubtedly the position of private schools would be considered by the association in Auckland of the headmasters and headmistresssa of such institutions. Asked if private schools and their boards of control would come under the jurisdiction of the senate or council proposed to govern the University of Northern New Zealand, Miss Sandford did not think that private control could be greatly affected If at all, though the point would need consideration. On this point a member of the board governing a large private institution in Auckland instanced the necessity for private schools to ascertain their position. It would be necessary, in his opinion, for such schools to preserve their individuality and not “to come within the rules of departmentalism.' This member declared that the essence of a non-public school was in its individual tradition, and it would be fatal to have this dspect impaired by officialdom. There was, of course, need to investigate this possibility be cause the students of non-publ'.c schools entered the University, and it was proposed by the committee to widen the scope of university control.