SCHOOL GRADING

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 116, 26 February 1937, Page 3

SCHOOL GRADING

EXTENSION OF FREE PLACES. CONCESSIONS TO FEE-PAYING PUPILS. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, February 25. A number of important decisions concerning the grading ol post-primary schools and free places in the schools were .revealed by the Alinister for Education, the Hon. P. Fraser, in an interview to-day. Usually the grading of secondary, technical, and combined schools, secondary departments, district high schools, and intermediate schools and departments is determined by roll numbers on Alarcli 1, but this year Alarcli 15 will be substituted for the usual date except in the case ot schools opening later than March 1, these being graded 14 days after the respective opening dates. In case the grading of schools is affected adversely through pupils finding positions because of the delay in opening such schools, no general relaxation of the staffing regulations will be made, each case being considered on its merits. It has been decided to continue the concessions that have been granted to fee-paying pupils in all types of Governmente post-primary schools. Approval is also given for the extension of junior free places for an additional year in the case of those pupils who failed to secure senior free places in 1936, and also for the extension of senior free places beyond the end of the year, in which the holders attain the age of 19 years provided in both cases that the parents are unable to provide the necessary fee for tuition of the child after the expiry of the free place.