COUNCIL OF EDUCATION.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 June 1919, Page 4

COUNCIL OF EDUCATION.

INCREASED qAMHWjg DESIRED ,'

By Telegraph.—Press Association, "r Wellington, June 26. * On the motion of Mr- E. E. Banks, in the Council of Eduoation this morning, it was resolved to congratulate the Government on raising the ,g| junior teachers and training college students by £3O a year. It was alio decided to urge upon the Government that the salaries of entrants to the teaching profession should be placed on a level" with'those paid in other branches of the ■ Civil Service. Mr. Banks also moved that the position of Director of Education should carry a minimum salary of £ISOO a year, and that the chief in-. spector of secondary, technical, and jri* mary schools should receive £I2OO a year; also that in future any vacancy in the Directorate should be advertised throughout the English-speaking countries, and that if a New Zealandtr should be appointed he be given twelve months' leave of absence to enable him to make a study of education as studied abroad, The motion was carried.—Aus.-KZ. Cable Assn.

FURTHER RESOLUTIONS. Wellington, Last Night. The Council of Education adopted the' following resolutions: n

That the council reaffirm the resolu« tion passed last year that no child should b> taught in any room Witfc let? than M square feet of floor space, and' ask Parliament to grant £OOO,OOO lb' provide" the necessary accommodation. • •'•'■>'% . Primary schools: That where avail- '-' r able the minimum amount. ofL land for a school should" be four aotej; that in cases where there aro more than 400 ehil- . dren attending school there should be at ' , least one acre of flat land for each hundred children attending the school;' Jind. ■' the Government be asked for an interim grant of £500,000 towards carryiu* thtf out. ■ - . . That in any new large school to be erected provision should Wlnade for a suitable room for the use o?iI' ; school dentist and doctor. ' -■ " Thai;in view of the present eondtffttyt' ■ a further increased capitation aUbwMee • Should be granted to school committees * for incidental purposes. " . That where provision of school sites, and playgrounds, whether new or add!*, tional, is necessary the full coat enfold'' ; be found by the department, unleti there is money available for the purpose out " J?* 3 K eneral f w<k of the board, That owing to the national importance ■ of securing a sound course of instruction in history in primary and aewm&ary schools steps should be taken to mako better provision for it than at oresent exists. ■ ■;.™ ■

That in view of the national Importance of manual and technical instruction the cost of sites for buildings for each purposes should be provided by the State m all casee in which local provimWfor sites by means of donation or otherwise ■» insufficient to meet all reasonable needs.