IMPERIAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 28 May 1907, Page 3

IMPERIAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE

London, May 20. Among those attending the Education Conference were Mr Hogben (InspectorGeneral of New Zealand Schoo..-) and Professor Brown. , Mr F. Tate, Director <of Education in Victoria, speaking on behalf of the Australian delegates,said the Colonial representatives were looking forward to meeting the leaders of the Homo educational departments and representatives of the learned societies. The conference would make the man in the street realise that the Empire was solving the problem of linking all grades of educational activity into a worthy organisation. The national taxpayer should realise his share of the work, since education was no longer a private affair. He described the progre-s of the educational systems of Australia. A conference bad appointed a committee of school inspectors to draft a scheme to facilititj the interchange of teachers and for the mutual recognition of certificates. Professor Gurney, Sydney, said a great stumbling block was the unequal value of the Certificate* in different parts of the Empire. British speakers strongly emphasised the prime necessity for a central bureau In London, supported by the colonies, the British charge to be the task of negotiating for interchange of teachers and recognising certificates.