SECONDARY SCHOOL CERTIFICATES.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 June 1917, Page 6

SECONDARY SCHOOL CERTIFICATES.

AMENDED KEGULATIONS. Wellington, June 18. Amended regulations have teen approved regarding secondary school certificates. The Minister of Education has already made important alterations in the regulations governing-the grant of free places in secondary schools, with the result of making it rather more difficult to win free places. These secondary school certificates are to be granted to pupils in secondary schools as proof that a certain amount of work has been done and of a certain definite recognised value. As to the certificates in the new Regulations, the important alteration is that a stated amount of work in English is prescribed, and .pupils are required to take up mathematics and a science to win the intermediate and lower leaving certificates." Previously, the higher leaving certificate, which entitles the holder to free University education, has not 'been granted except to pupils taking the full secondary course of (say) five subjects. It will now be possible for a pupil to, gain a higher leaving certificate by taking only three subjects, one of them being' English, provided some special attention has been given to those subjects. One effect of this change will be that scholars will be able to begin specialisation at the secondary school, or to take something in the nature of a vocational course..