UNIVERSITY ENTRANCE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 May 1939, Page 5

UNIVERSITY ENTRANCE

SYSTEM OF ACCREDITING ' PROPOSED 1 RESEARCH COUNCIL REPORT. ’ (By Telegraph—Press Association.) 1 WELLINGTON, This Day. ! Considerable changes in the system of entrance to the university, including a full accrediting scheme, are proposed in a report just published by the New Zealand Council for Educational : Research of a survey by Mr W. Thom- ; as, Dr C. E. Beeby and Mr W. H. Oram The authors of the report advocate complete accrediting, their proposals : being:—(l) All schools should be empowered to accredit pupils to the university; (2) a properly devised school record card should form the basis of accrediting; (3) the staff of secondary school inspectors should be increased from four to at least six; (4) specialised training of post-primary teachers should be provided immediately; (5) a liaison officer should be appointed in each university district. He would confer with the schools, and the university college, on the standards of work to be expected, and would help in the supervision of students in their .first year of university work; (6) at the end of at Least three years a School Certificate should be granted to all pupils whose work is thoroughly satisfactory. No one should be admitted to the university without a further year’s work at school after obtaining a School Certificate; (7) for the present an examination should be held for those who do not obtain a School Certificate by accrediting; (8) part-time careers advisers with special training should be appointed in every postprimary school: (9) schools should be left as unfettered as possible in making their curricula. VIEWS OF SCHOOL PRINCIPALS. At the annual meeting of the heads of the Registered Secondary Schools of New Zealand, held in Wellington yesterday, the following remit was adopted: —“That this association considers that (a) a general leaving examination is a necessity, and could well follow the lines of the present school certificate examination; (b) the university should demand a further year’s satisfactory work at a post-primary school, and should permit matriculation on this, with provision for an examination for those who do not qualify in this manner; (c) that the university • should lay down the groups of subjects to be studied in the last year, according to the course to be taken at the university by those who wish to matriculate.” Another remit, which was adopted unanimously, provided for the setting up of a select committee to deal with accrediting and other suggestions affecting university entrance.