EDUCATIONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 159, 14 October 1910, Page 2

EDUCATIONAL.

THE CANTERBURY BOARD. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, Yesterday. The Education Board decided this morning to give consideration to the question of appointing a woman inspector of schools when the next vacancv occurred in the inspection staff. The Board had before it a report that the City Council had caused the houses of city schoolmasters to be entered on the valuation roll with a view to rating the buildings. The committee recommended that an emphatic protest be entered against this action, and that the attention of the Government bb called to it. The;chairman said that residences had hitherto been regarded as exempt from rating, and it might be! necessary to test the position in the Supreme Court. The Board decided to endorse the Otago petition to Parliament praying, for amendment of the Education Act in the d r rection of relieving teachers of smaller schools from the responsibility of examining and promoting pupils, and! establishing a special inspecting staff to' do this work. The Board, however, deferred that schools should be classed as efficient and non-efficient rather thaii that a distinction be drawn between city and country schools.