EDUCATION CONFERENCE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 287, 27 April 1911, Page 5

EDUCATION CONFERENCE

AN IMPERIAL MOVEMENT. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, April 25. The Imperial Education Conference has opened. Mr. P. Board represents New South Wales, Mr. C'R. Andrews West Australia and Queensland. South Australia and Tasmania are represented by their Agents-General and New Zealand by the High Commissioner. The Earl of Meath welcomed the delegates. Mr. Runciman, president of the Board of Education, who presided, said the object of the conference was to bring to a common stock the intellectual forces of the Empire. The educator was by his influence producing the men in whom lay the Imperial strength.

IMPERIAL HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY.

SUGGESTED INTERCHANGE OF TEACHERS.

Received 26, 8.50 p.m. London, April 26. The Education Conference is sitting in camera at the Education Office.

The morning session discussed the possibility of the establishment of an Imperial buteau of education systems in Australia, New Zealand and other dominions, with a view of the interchange of teachers, the teaching of Imperial history, etc. The afternoon sitting at the Foreign Office discussed papers by Mr. 11. J. MacKinder, member of the House of Commons, on Imperial geography; by Professor Egerton, on the teaching of Imperial history. Professor Herbertson. of Oxford, suggested that every colonial university should have a chair of geography.