SCHOOL INSPECTORS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 316, 16 February 1910, Page 5

SCHOOL INSPECTORS

A. CONFERENCE. By Telegraph.—rresi' Association. Wellington, February 15. A conference of the dominion's school inspectors opened this morning Mr. G. Tlogben presiding. The chairman said it was satisfactory to note that the criticisms directed against the syllabus were concerned with matters of detail. He did not consider the syllabus to be perfect, as in certain respects it was largely of a tentative character. It might be possible to make modifications.' to suit all teachers. A motion that the present live classes of teachers' certificates be reduced to three was lost in favor of an amendment that the matter be referred to the training committee. Mr. Mulgan (Canterbury) moved "That all junior scholarships should be open to pupils attending private schools where they have 'been inspected for three years under the Education Act prioK to granting such scholarships." A long discussion followed. All the speakers save one—Mr. Hill, of Hawke's Baystrongly supported the proposal. The motion was' carried on the voices, with two dissentients. Wellington, Last Night. Upon Mr. Mulgan's motion, it was agreed that in view of the many excellent text-books and class-books now being brought out by publishing firms, the Department's list of class-books for public schools' be extended, and that a choice of books wider than now obtains be allowed to teachers in making selections in tcrnwi of the Department's racI morandum dealing with the grant for free school books. Mr. Wyllie (Southland) moved that maps of education districts be prepared by the Education Department for .school use. Relief maps were suggested by Mr. Pctrie, while Mr. Hill slated'that a map of the principal watersheds of New Zealand, prepared liv the Survey Department, should be in every school A cheaper way of getting the required publications mentioned by Mr. Stewart was to send corrections of New Zealand features to the Home map-makers. "flfs all a question of money.'' <vas the Tnspector-Ceneral's eomnemt.—The motion was adopted with the addition, " Such maps to show Surface relief." To the training committee was ivlej paled the following proposal bv Mr. R. |K. Mulgan: "That for each of the four i training colleges two annual extension j scholarships be established, open to all I students at the end of their second year of training, and tenable for one year J at some University College or its equivalent, to be approved by (lio Minister of Education, and that holders of scholarships be required to specialise in some suliject for which they have shown special aptitude, and that the scholarships J lie awarded partly on" the result of an examination and partly on the recommendation of the principal of the training college. The conference resume's in tlv morning