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ANALYSIS OF REPORT.

PRELIMINARY — PAG-E Proceedings ... ... ... ... 1 Resignation and appointment ... ... 1 Draft Bill ... ... ... ... 1 Eeport ... ... ... ... 1 I. Institutions for University Education ... 1 Provision for University education ... 1 University of Otago Canterbury College ... ... ... 3 II. Secondary Schools ... ... ... 4 Relation of the secondary to the primary school ... ... ... ... 4 The case of advanced pupils from primary schools entering secondary schools ... 4 Provision for teaching higher subjects in primary schools ... ... ... 5 Eelation of the secondary school to the University ... ... ... ... 5 Financial condition of the secondary schools 5 Auckland College and Grammar School 6 Wellington College ... ... ... 6 Nelson College ... ... ... 7 Christ's College Grammar School ... 7 Otago Boys' and Girls' High Schools ... 8 Christchurch Girls' High School ... 9 Auckland Girls'High School ... 9 Table of attendance, staff, and fees ... 10 Financial difficulties of some schools ... 10 Recommendation to grant power to sell reserves ... ... ... ... 10 Governing bodies of secondary schools ... 11 Organization of secondary schools... ... 11 Powers, &c, of headmaBters ... ... 12 Other masters ... ... ... ... 12 Entrance examinations and classification ... 12 Forms ... ... ... ... 12 Curriculum ... ... ... ... 13 Classical and modern sides ... ... 13 Upper and lower departments ... ... 15 Division of the year into quarters or terms ... 16 Accommodation for boarders ... ... 17 Salaries ... ... ... ... 17 Parnell Grammar School ... ... 18 Napier Trust School ... ... ... 18 Wanganui Industrial School ... ... 18 Southland High School ... ... ... 18 Timaru High School ... ... ... 18 Insufficiency of existing provision for some schools ... ... ... ... 19 New schools projected or required ... 19 General proposals for establishment and con- .. stitution of new schools ... ... 19 Uniformity of constitution not necessary ... 20 Tests of efficiency of secondary schools ... 20 Examinations conducted by the school authorities ... ... ... ... 20 Government inspection and examination recommended ... ... ... ... 21 Civil Service examinations ... ... 21 University junior scholarship examinations as a test of the efficiency of the schools ... 21 Dangers attendant upon scholarship schome 22 Satisfactory character of present regulations for scholarships ... ... ... 22 Minimum age for junior scholarships ... 22 Affiliation and its effects ... ... ... 22 Object of affiliation ... ... ... 23 Institutions affiliated ... ... ... 23 Apparent intention not to affiliate secondary schools as such ... ... ... 23 Affiliation of schools, as affecting both the teachers and the standard of the degree examination ... ... ... ... 23 Circumstances in which plan of affiliating schools was adopted ... ... ... 24 Affiliation resulted in advantages which might have been more legitimately secured by system of scholarships ... ,.. 24 New colleges required ... ... ... 24

III. Professional and Technical Schools Medical schools Law schools School of mines School of agriculture Engineering ... ... ... ... Navigation Boards of Advice in connection with technical schools Petition of Dr. Gillies and others ... Recommendation to make income of special technical schools available for general purposes of technical instruction Normal schools... Schools of art and design taoe 24 24 26 2G 28 29 29 29 30 30 30 31 IV. Evening- Classes Evening lectures in University Colleges Evening classes at Auckland and Wellington Colleges Nelson College trust deed New Zealand Institute ... Evening classes in primary schools Caledonian Society's classes Proposed grant to Education Boards to aid in organizing evening classes 31 32 32 32 32 32 33 33 V. SCHOLAESHIPS University scholarships ... Scholarships of private foundation Education Board scholarships Recommendations as to regulations for Board scholarships ... As to age ... As to subjects As to schools in which they may be held As to the schools from which candidates 33 33 33 34 34 34 34 35 may come Money value of Board scholarships Scholarships in various schools Free tuition in some cases for Board's scholars Maintenance allowance in normal schools ... Scholarships tenable at professional and technical schools ... Agricultural School scholarships ... Recommendations as to scholarships for School of Mines, &c.,.. 35 35 36 36 36 36 37 37 VI. Endowments University reserves Otago University Canterbury College Auckland College Wellington College Nelson College ... Christ's College... Otago High Schools Waitaki High School Southland High Schools ... Timaru High School Ashburton High Sohool ... Auckland Girls' High School Thames High School Whangarei High School... New Plymouth High School Wanganui High School ... Reserves for secondary education vested in School Commissioners ... Estates " for education of children of both races" Wesleyan ... Roman Catholic ... ... ... Church of England ... Recommendations as to Government supervision Estates originating in contracts between colonizing companies and the settlers Grants of public money ... 37 37 38 38 39 40 40 41 42 42 42 42 42 42 42 42 42 42 43 43 43 44 44 45 45 45 Recommendations 46