THE EDUCATION BILL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 61, 1 August 1914, Page 2

THE EDUCATION BILL.

I TEACHERS' INSTITUTE VIEWS. I By Tcl"gra'pli.—Press Association. AVi Uington. July 3(1. The Education In fiti i - >pecial convention is discussing the Education Bill in detail. The following ai\» •> mong the resolutions passed:--That the New Zealand Educational Institute urge strongly that in urbar areas as well as in the urban districts that members of th.i Education Boards be elected 011 a municipal franchise, ana that as early as- possible some wider franchise than at present in force be introduced in rural areas." "That the Minister be requested to j make provision that in addition to the 1 members already designated there be I one member of the Board elected by I the certificated teachers within the dis- ' trict." I "That the removal• exp. uses of the 1 teachers be included in clause. E of Section 34 of the Education Bill." On clause 07 (appointment of teachers in public schools) resolutions were carried that pending the establishment of a system for grading 1 , appointment, and promotion of tcaeliers, in no case shall the name of more than one teacher be submitted for consideration to the school committee; that all appointments "be ma-de from a Dominion graded list drawn upon the basis of efficiency and service, and that such list be supplied to boards. "That when a eihool rises a grade, automatic promotion of the present teacher or teachers shall not be made i' the board considers that there are other teachers more entitled to promotion, this to be subject to a proviso that no teacher be reduced in salary, through re-arrangement of stall'." OTAGO EDUCATION BOARD'S SUGGESTIONS.

I Dunedin, July 30. I The Otago Education Board has part- , ly considered the "Education Bill, and recommends several points for the consideration of the Minister. Among others it recommend* that education boards ho given more adequate representation on the Council of Education, that the representation of the Department he reduced. The establishment of District Councils was objected to, as tending to forcing and alteration in the methods of election. The i.oard representing urban areas was opposed, as it Would tend to destroy the interest taken by school committees. It was the Boaril'g intention to continue its review of the Bill on Monday next. WAMJANni PROTESTS. Wanganui, July 30. The Wanganui School Committees' Association to-night discussed the Edu- ; cation Bill, and passed a resolution to tthe following,effect: "Protesting against ' the proposal to centralise the control of inspectors in the Education Department, as the Association is convinced from experience that inspectors should ,bo m direct touch with and appointed « bv the Board and lie absolutely independent of the central department; that duties of committees should be more fully defined; that reports of the medical inspectors be communicated to the committees as qnieklv as possible, and that on the medical inspector reporting that a child requires medical or dental attention such services shall be rendered at the cost of the State if it be shown that a parent is unable to afford the expense; that a protest be made against the proposal that committees provide school stationery; that the proposed r P . r.S na fw ?/ c '.°" lmittres is impractiR; tl,at tl! e increases of salaries be approved, and that the teachers of separate infant schools should receive substantial increase.; that a- protest be made against the proposed preponderate °/ * eiM?hfira ai "<l departmental retion ° S ° n ttlC Colmeil of