OUR TECHNICAL SCHOOLS.
Mr. E. C. Isaac, Inspector of Technical Schools, reported upon the woik of the New Plymouth and Stratfu.d schools. All the instructors at X :w Plymouth but one earned "good" and "very good" for instruction, and "good" was almost unvaried for practical work. Equipment was ; ilso "good." and registration ill all cases "satisfactory." Commenting on this school. .\l'-. Isaac wrote: " It is to be hoped that the time is not far distant when tin' Board will be able to -see it rt way to placing the technical school in charge of a principal who will devote the whole of his time to its interests. The present arrangement, whereby the Chief inspector takes a general oversight of the. work can only be regarded as tcntathc, as the demand made by the primary., school work upon his time and energy makes it impossible for him to give tne technical school the close and undivided attention it should have, if the school is to be brought into direct relationship with the industrial needs of the town and district. The work of the school appears to be capable of expansion :u many directions, and it is fell that the best results from every point of view will be attained when the Board is able to appoint a competent principal."
The Xew Plymouth technical class.'included book-keeping, principles in plumbing, blackboard drawing, botany, p:iiiiii:"g. dressmaking, commercial arithmetic, sixth standard subjects, elementary carpentry, English, Latin, carpentry and joinery, practical plumbing, commercial law, and cookery. Only dressmaking, jnillinery, and cookcry classes at Stratford were report.d upon, the remarks ranging from fair to good. SCHOOL CLASSES.
(Reporting on the school classes in woodwork, cookery, and elementary physics, at New Plymouth, the quality of instruction and practical work was very favourably commented upon. "There is a marked improvement in the wink of the classes in cookery and woodwoik as compared with that of last year. It would, however, lie an advantage if more time were, devoted to the drawing in connection with the 'woodwork, in order that a higher standard of accuracy and linish might be attained."
Xo comment was imule on the Strat ford school classes, but '' very good ' was frequent in the columns of tit: report.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 232, 24 September 1908, Page 4
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371OUR TECHNICAL SCHOOLS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 232, 24 September 1908, Page 4
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