EDUCATION PROGRESS

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20495, 11 May 1938, Page 8

EDUCATION PROGRESS

EXPANBION OF SERVICES REVIEW BY MINISTER (By Telegraph.—Press Association) WELLINGTON, Tuesday A combined meeting of the Educational Institute, the Technical Schools Teachers’ Association and the Secondary Schools’ Teachers Association wa* addressed by the Hon. P. Fraser, Minister of Education, this morning. He said during the two years five months the Government had been in office grants amounting to £1,380,066 had been made for school buildings, of which £826,960 was in respect to primary schools. Me referred to the increase in the size of schoolrooms, increased grants to school committees and the restoration of grants to kindergartens, also to the re-entry of five-year-olds. Four additional school medical officers had been appointed, five additional nurses and twelve additional district nurses, whose duties usually included school work. There were now 140 in training for dental clinics and twenty new clinics were established in districts where until now this service had not been available. The number of existing clinics had been strengthened so that more children could be treated. Of the 282,000 school children of the Dominion 137,000 accepted milk and new schemes and extensions arranged included a further 14,60 f children. It was estimated that 800 Maori children would in the ne' future receive the benefit of t malted milk scheme. APPROACH TO ART W SUGGESTIONS TO TEACHERS (By Telegraph.—Press Association) WELLINGTON, Tuesday The* annual conference of the Technical Schools Teachers’ Association was opened to-day. The functions of the technical colleges were covered by Mr L. R. R. Denny in his presidential address, and art and education formed an important section of it. He suggested that the present need was the functional approach to art and a return to practical arts and crafts to learn from them the essential relations of art to social life and progress-