TEACHERS CONFER

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19886, 15 May 1936, Page 9

TEACHERS CONFER

TECHNICAL EDUCATION. OOIMIT‘I’EE'S RECOMMENDATIONS (By Telegraph—Press Association.) \\‘ELLINGTON, Thursday. At the Technical Scliools‘_uontet'eiicc the committee sci up to consider schemes for educational reorganisat—lion, with special reference to the recommendations of the .\tmore report. recommended the Conference to approve of the general principle that the primary course should terminate at it plus. or after passing standard IV.; if children are then given the option at attending either a Junior high or a Junior technical school. such schools to form a department 01‘ a senior school and be under the control of the School Board. and pending the adoption or this system that children be permitted to attend post-primary schools at the beginning or the year following their thirteenth birthdays; that the association strongly support a school-leaving age or 16; that the association is strongly opposed to a hard-and-fast type of separated intermediate school; and opposes uniiicaiiun of control of all schools under District Education Boards. and to single inspectorate for all schools; that the association support the introduction into the postprimary schools of those sciences calculated to promote more interest in the basic industries; endorses the View 0! the recess committee criticis—ing the tendency for scholarship tests to be unduly loaded on the academic side; that the department he urged to investigate the question oi? providing training for trade instructors with it View to securing 21 combination of both teacher-training and trade experience. and that facilities he provided for training technical school teachers in each of the tour centres; that the association considers the conditions of university entrance examinations should not be such as to deter students of schools from pursuing degree or diploma courses; that the Intern of vocational guidance be ex—tended and developed, and that the department take control of the vocational guidance system.

A standing committee is to be set up to keep the question of reorganisation under review. and to meet in Wellington as required in the coming year- ._.—._— INTIRMIDIA'I’I HIGH SOHOOL'B. CONSIDERED BY INSTITUTE. WELLINGTON, Thursday. The New Zealand Educational Institute lurther considered the subject or intermediate high schools. An amendment. moved by Miss. McGiil (\Veliington). was carried: "That {urther extensions or the move—ment shall not preclude the carrying out of urgent reforms overdue in the primary schools."