COUNCIL OF EDUCATION.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 November 1915, Page 6

COUNCIL OF EDUCATION.

MEETING THIS MONTH. QUESTIONS TO BE DEALT WITH. A great deal of interest and importance attached to the first meeting of the Council of Education to be held on November 10. Speaking to a Daily News representative last night the Minister for Education (the Hon. J. A. Hanan) said the greatest task ahead of Council is fixing the boundaries of the nine education districts into which the Dominion is divided. The council is also being asked by the Minister to consider a number of other questions as follows:

Regarding scholarships, whether these should be tenable at schools of secondary education, other than secondary schools (as defined by the Education Act); district schools and technical high schools; the question of excluding from candidature for junior scholarships those who are already in receipt of free education at secondary schools, district high schools, or technical high schools; what amendments, if any, should be made in the Education Act in the general scheme for scholarships; what amendments, if any, should be made in the conditions of admission to, and tenure of, free places in the case of secondary schools and technical schools respectively; at what classes of schools, and on what conditions, should secondary school certificates be granted. The council is also being asked to give consideration to 'the question of extending the scheme of physical training and medical inspection, so as to make better provision for advice and treatment for the amelioration of physical defects and sub-normal development among school children.