EDUCATIONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 303, 1 February 1910, Page 5

EDUCATIONAL.

MATRICULATION. j By Telegraph.—Press,' Association. Dunediiij Last Night. The University Senate concluded its ■business to-day by revising the matriculation examinations. Candidates arc not to take more than six subjects, but as aritlibetic, algebra, and geometry are, Wouped under one head, this is' equiva-, lent to eight. The number required for- & pass is reduced to five, English and . mathematics .being compulsory. A can-1 'didate who does not take Latin or Greek j ■must take science subjects, and those; \vho intend to take the arts course must | take Latin or Greek. The next meeting j was fixed for Christchurch. GRANTS TO BOARDS. Christchurch, Last Night. Mr. T. W. Adams, chairman of the Nortji Canterbury Education .Board, States that the Hon. G. Fowlds' remarks in regard to grants to boards, published this morning, greatly surprised him. He thinks, indeed, that the has ibeen misreported. The position in North Canterbury he describes as a very seri'ous one. Last year the board receijßd I £8690 in grants, including £1715 for reinstating the old buildings. This year the total of the grants' has been eut flown to £4831. The reduction amounts to £4159, or more than fifty per cent. "We cannot carry on; that is all about it," Mr. Adams says. In regard to Mr. Fowlds' statement that the boards in the dominion have paid £89,000 more than they ought to have paid during the past five or six years on the rebuilding of old schools, Mr. Adams states that it certainly cannot be applied to North Canterbury, and that it is equally incorrect to include his' district in the 'assertion that "a good many boards have been using a considerable portion .of this money, paid specially for rebuilding worn-out schools, in general work in connection with schools." The North Canterbury Board, in fact, has reserved its grant for reinstating old buildings strictly for that purpose. It has the fund intact, and apparently it is being punished more severely than the boards ■which hava not done so.