CORRESPONDENCE CLASSES.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 August 1921, Page 4

CORRESPONDENCE CLASSES.

FOR BACK-BLOCK CHILDREN By Talegraph —Press Association. Wellington, August 2. The Education Department is adopting a. system of correspondence classes for the benefit of children who cannot be reached by schools. A similar system is in operation in Victoria, Where it has been found to give excellent results. The department, working through the Post Office, will provide means for the education of children under the direction of their own parents. Tho Minister of Education, referring to this matter, said he had decided to ask Education Boards to announce by advertisement that the department was prepared to arrange for the education of children by correspondence in isolated districts where no school existed or where schools were of grade O (fewer than nine children). Tuiton would be given by a teacher specially appointed in the Training College. The scheme would provide for children living in lighthouses. Mr. Parr added that he believed the arrangements would overcome the difficulty of providing for the education of children where families were many miles apart and the provision of ordinary school facilities impossible.