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supposing each of our secondary schools were to contribute to an examining fund about £40 a year, the amount, if properly administered, would surely suffice to defray the examiners' fees, and also, if necessary, their travelling expenses. If the University would only organize some such syndicate I am sure it would be supported by the governing bodies of all our secondary schools, and would be almost, if not altogether, self-supporting. Should the University decline to take its proper position as the head and director of our educational sytem—a position which I believe all secondary teachers would like to see it take —then it might be possible for the Education Department to offer some encouragement to teachers and others interested in education to organize a college of preceptors on the lines of the London College of Preceptors, which has done so much for middle-class schools in England.

Enclosure No. 2. Scheme submitted by the Rector op the High School op Otago, Dunedin. 1. The University* of New Zealand is prepared to receive applications for the examination of schools not being primary or first-grade schools, to be conducted under the direction and by the authority of the Senate. 2. Applications should be addressed to the Registrar of the University of New Zealand, at Wellington, by the trustees or governing board of the school (if there be such a corporation), or by the principal of the school. 3. Every application should be made four clear months, at least, before the date proposed for the time of examination, and should be accompanied by specific information as to— (a.) The number of classes proposed for examination, with the number and average age of the pupils of each class : (b.) The subjects taught, the degree of proficiency attained, and in some subjects the textbooks in use in each class : (c.) The extent to which inspectional papers may be available for the purposes of the exami- ( nation. [Definition. —An inspectional paper is a paper set by the examiner or examiner-in-chief, the answers to which are not, in the first instance, revised by the examiner-in-chief, but are revised and marked by teachers in the school examined, according to a scale of marks furnished by the examiner-in-chief; to whom, after this operation, the whole of the papers marked are sent, with results of marking, for his further inspection or revision.] 4. No examination in languages shall be based upon prepared books, but shall comprise examination in grammar, composition, and translation (with or without a word-list); and no textbooks shall be specified either in grammar or composition. 5. No text-books shall be specified in the subject of mathematics; and by " geometry "it shall be understood that Euclidian geometry is specified. 6. In the case of the English language, history, and literature, text-books shall be specified, and there shall be prepared books, or parts of books, to be specified at least two years beforehand. 7. The examinations shall be conducted by printed papers only, and in every case the following details of management shall be observed : — (a.) No paper shall be set for less than two or more than three hours' duration. (b.) The duration of each paper shall be printed clearly at the head of each printed paper. (c.) All examination papers shall be forwarded to the school to be examined under official seal, with the name of the school, date of examination, duration and subject of paper inscribed clearly on the cover. (d.) Every such cover shall be opened at the time specified for examination on the cover, by the principal of the school, in the presence of at least one of the assistants, who shall subsequently sign a declaration, to be forwarded to the Registrar of the University of Zealand, that all these and other details have been duly complied with. (e.) The examinations shall be conducted, so far as may be, according to a scale of marks already in force under the regulations of the University of New Zealand for matriculation. 8. The scale of fees shall be at the rate of, say, £2 10s. per hundred answer-papers sent in, under which fee shall be included— (a) the preparation of the examination papers ; (b) the report on the results. The fee shall not include expenses arising from —(a) printing of either examination paper or report; (b) postages, or any other secretarial material. Always provided that, for the purposes of estimation of fees, any number between fifty and a hundred answer-papers shall count as a hundred, and any number between nought and fifty shall count as fifty; and that, in any subject for which two or more papers are set, the number of answer-papers arising from each examina-tion-paper shall be an independent unit of calculation for the purpose of estimating fees, as, e.g., a form of twenty-three boys is examined in Latin by two papers — (a) an author paper, (b) a grammar paper : the two sets of papers shall be allowed for separately, and considered as two sets of fifty, and not as one set of forty-six, it being equitable that the specific work of preparation of each examination paper should be represented in the fee under this scheme. 9. Scale of examination of VI. and Upper V. Forms in a school of two hundred boys.—Assume total in two classes to be less than fifty. By groups a graduated paper can be set in the following subjects : Mathematics—Euclid, £1 ss. ; algebra, £1 55.; arithmetic, £1 ss. English—Grammar, £1 ss. ; history, £1 ss. Latin—Translation, £1 ss. ; grammar- and composition, £1 ss. FrenchTranslation, £1 ss. ; grammar and composition, £1 ss. German —Translation, £1 ss. ; grammar and composition, £1 ss. Science—One paper (in any subject, e.g., chemistry), £1 ss. Specific papers, Form VI. only, as follows: Latin—Higher composition, £1 ss. Mathematics —Trigonometry, mechanics, £1 ss. English—Prepared author, £1 ss. Science —Special subject, e.g., biology, £1 ss.

* Bead for " University," " Registrar," " Senate," if necessary, " Education Department," &«.

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