IMPERIAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 30 May 1907, Page 3

IMPERIAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE

PROPOSED IMPERIAL BUREAU. London, May 28. Professor Sadler, in the Horning Post, Buggests an Imperial Bureau of Edueition, at on annual cost of £IO,OOO, including a comprehensive technical library and a carefully edited year book. Be proposed that the bureau should be dude a. representative of each of the colonies, whose salary would be paid by his colony, and forming a department of the Secretariat resolved upon at Che Imperial Conference, directly this organisation became independent of the Colonial Office.

Received 30th, 12.31 a.m. London, May 29. Mr G. Hogben (New Zealand) arranged for the Conference's use five exhibit photos of New Zealand school life. The Conference discussed the possibility of closer uniformity in curricula, nomenclature and methods of presenting official educational statistics. I Lord Elgin, presiding at a public afternoon sitting, advocated a co-ordi-nate system of education from the elementary schools to the University. Mr Hogben described the secondary Schools of New Zealand. Mr Carter (Sydney) urged the formation of an Imperial Council on education to consider all suggested schemes. Such a Council would prove a real help to the colonies and every part of the Empire, since all could applly for information.

The technical section discussed technical education in the colonies.