Educational Broadcasts

Radio Record, Volume VI, Issue 33, 24 February 1933, Page 6

Educational Broadcasts

Relayed from ‘Training College

NEW feature in broadcasting in the Dominion, and one which marks a decided step forward, will be inaugurated from 1YA on Monday, March 6, at 1.45 p.m., when the first of a series of educational broadcasts will be relayed from the Auckland Training Coliege. When educational sessions have been broadcast in the past they have been given from the studio of the station concerned, but in respect of the new series from Auckland a permanent relay line has been installed from the Training College to 1YA, and _ the broadeasts will actually be given from the class rooms, where the speakers will have their classes before them. One of the principal advantages of relaying from the class rooms will be Aa

that in eases where it is necessary to give illustrations, as for example in music, students from the Training Col lege or children from the Normal School, will be available for demonstration . purposes, The principal of the Aucklaud Training College, Mr. D. M. Rae, has arranged for broadcast programmes to be carried out by the staff of the college, and the Education Board has appointed a committee, consisting of the Senior Inspector of Schools, the principal of the Training College, one represenluitve of the Auckland Headmasters’ Associution, and one representative of the board, to control the programmes for the proposed broadcasts. This innovation should make a very wide appeul to the schools and other educational authorities, and will doubtless be watched with critical interest by all those who have the interests of broadcasting at heart. and do not look upon it merely as_a form of cheap entertain-, ment,