The Daily News. FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1901. TEACHERS' CLASSES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 46, 8 March 1901, Page 2

The Daily News. FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1901. TEACHERS' CLASSES.

The establishment of Saturday classes for the benefit of teachers ia the Taranaki district is a matter that has long been felt te sadly need attention, and the Education Beard is te be congratulated en at last securing this advantage. For years the younger teachere of the Taranaki education district, who have been anxious to go up for their degrees or for a higher cartificate than that already held, have had to engage a private coach. Even that has been vary difficult to secure, I and in all cases it is generally recognised that students make better progress while working iti classes than individually. It litis always been a source of regret to the members of the Education Board that their limited funds and the urgent necessities of the widely scattered schools under their jurisdiction has rendered it imposjiblto do anything in this direction. At the last moeting of the Board Mias Campbell and Mr. John Boyle, two of the assistant teachers at the Sr.ralford District High School, both of whom hold the M.A. degree, applied for leave to establish such classes in connection with that school enclosing the scale of fees proposed to be Gbarged, Needless to say the 'Board gave sanction very willingly and decided to use its influonce to secure concessions on the railway for teachers wishing to avail themselves of ►uchaa admirable chance of securing tho fullest benefit of the classes. Having obtained the approval and support of the Education Board, Miss Campbell and Mr. Boyle have sent out a circular to th 6 teachors in the district and have also favoured us with a espy. In this circular they say:—" In order te give teachers an opportunity of securing tuition in subjects that are required for the Certificate examinations, we have, at the request of several of the headmasters in Taranaki, decided to conduct classes on Saturday in the Stratford District High School, to cover work for the B.A. degree and C certificate and also for the martriculation examination and D certificate. We have submitted our programme of proposed work, and it has been heartily endorsed by the Education Board, The Board further has agreed to secure concessions from the Railway Department for those who ] to atttend the classes. In the ; higher class the course will cover 1 the work for tho B.A. degree and C ' certificate inLatin,English, andMa<the- J matics. In the elementary class the , course will cover tho work for D certi- i ficate and Matric. in Latin, English, 1 Geography, Arithmetic, Euclid, Alge- 1 bra, Science. Other subjects may be ] arranged for." T|» fees aad haura are ;

aleo given and an intimation that the classes start oil Saturday week. We need hardly siywewish the venture every success and hope it will he the nucleus of a proprrly equipped training school for teachers so that the young teachers of Taivn'ski may bi able 10 compete sacc(B.-iLilly with the trained teachors fiem other dietriotß.