EDUCATION COMMISSION

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10671, 18 July 1912, Page 5

EDUCATION COMMISSION

SUGGESTIONS BY INSPECTORGENERAL. (By Telegraph —Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Last Night. Mr G. Hogben, Inspector-General of Schools, reviewing before th© Education- " Commission some suggestions which had been put forward, said that the community of interest would be sacrificed by dividing the Bdueation Districts into four. It would, he said, be a species of centralisation with all the attendant evils of undue centralisation. Proper division could be best made in connection with a general scheme of local Government, under which the education expenditure could be charged to the loeal rates. Assuming that education would come under the Looai Government scheme, he made the following suggestions:— (1) That the present Education Districts, Boards, and School Committees be abolished, with the reservation that he had some doubts on the questions of Committees. (2) That the new Education Districts be co-terminus with the nejv counties. (3) That an Education Board be coastituted in each Education District as follows: —Six members chosen by the County Councils from amongst its own members; two mem--I»eas elected by the primary teachers of public and prima 17 schools in the country, and two members elected by all certificated teachers who are employed for not less than twenty hours a week; one member appointed by the Professorial Board of a University. College, to be appointed annually, and lialf of the members before mentioned -feo retire each year, the Council to fill the vacancies, but not from its own members, if the bodies named fail to ■elect members within 60 days.