TECHNICAL SCHOOLS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 169, 1 May 1935, Page 3

TECHNICAL SCHOOLS.

TEACHERS TO CONFER. REMITS TO BE CONSIDERED. (Special to the “ Guardian.”) WELLINGTON, April 29. Sixty-three remits are set out foi consideration at the annual conference of the New Zealand Technical School Teachers’ Association next month. The annual report states that the past year has been a year of quiet activity and considerable progress, particularly in the direction of mutual understanding and co-operation with other postprimary teachers. Educational ideas were in a state of flux, and with tha ever-changing conditions of thought and practice, it behoved all members to maintain and, if possible, strengthen the influence of the association. The report further states that the superannuation conference, which met last year, had not been reassembled, as the question of introducing new legislation had been shelved by the Government lor the time being. However, any uneasiness oyer the position of the funds had been allayed by the official statement that the payment of superannuation would be guaranteed by tho Government. One result asks that the Ministei ox Education and the Minister of Employment be urged (by deputation) to raise the school leaving age to 16, and to take the necessary steps to modify legislation, Orders -in - Council and Regulations so that all young people under the age of 16 shall not be employed in industry, but shall he afforded full or part-time education. Another requests the immediate restoration of subsidies for libraries. Dealing with the School Certificate, a remit reads: (a) ‘‘That professional bodies accent the School Certificate as an alternative to University Entrance as their requisite preliminary examination • (b) that such bodies indicate a group of subjects in the School Certificate list from which a selection by the candidates may be made, such a group being- wider and more suitable than at present required for University Entrance e.e., that the New Zealand . toociety of Accountants should include book-keeping, shorthand, typewriting, economics, and that a foreign and a science be not compulsory.