TECHNICAL EDUCATION.
During the course of his remarks at the opening of the new Technical School at Masterton yesterday, the Minister for Education stated that the number of persons receiving free technical education was 1,874. Most of these pupils are taking up definite courses of technical instruction at day classes, attending on the average twenty hours a week. Except in the case of these day classes, considerable difficulty continues to be experienced by those in charge of classes in getting students to take up definite courses of instruction in lieu of separate (often unrelated) subjects. It was unlikely that the continued efforts of directors and others would meet with the success they deserved until employers and employed realised that regular attendance, at appropriate courses of instruction, could not fail to be to their ultimate mutual advantage. That this important fact is being gradually recognised elsewhere, was evident from the increasing number of English employers who are now interesting themselves
in the education of their work peop'e either by means of scholarships, by full or part payment of fees, or by allowing time off often without loss of pay.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3067, 11 December 1908, Page 4
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188TECHNICAL EDUCATION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3067, 11 December 1908, Page 4
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