TECHNICAL EDUCATION.
DIRECTORS’ ANNUAL CONFERENCE.
By Telegraph. —Pres* Association
Wellington, May 10. The annual conference of directors of technical colleges and other officials connected with technical education opened to-day, Mr. G. J. Park, Director of Wanganui Technical College, presiding. In his presidential address, Mr. Park said they must all deplore the fact that the policy of economy on education, which had already begun in this country, had so far elicited little more than pious resolutions, but he hoped that the conference would not only consider economy in education, but that it would take some preliminary steps towards setting up a national educational defence association, with a permanent organisation to follow up its resolutions. At the same time he was not of opinion that economy on the part of the Government was not necessary, nor that economy in the Education Department’s expenditure was impossible. Regarding defects in the present rystem, Mr. Park said that if the mistakes were not to be repeated they must endeavor to maintain the present scale of educational effort. They must organise, and the organisation must begin with the teachers..
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 May 1921, Page 7
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183TECHNICAL EDUCATION. Taranaki Daily News, 11 May 1921, Page 7
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