NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIPS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 281, 25 November 1915, Page 9

NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIPS.

THE FREE PLACE SYSTEM. £ECO>~DARY SCHOOL" CERTIFICATES. (By Telegraph.—rrcs-- Association.) WELLINGTON". Wednesday. The Minister for Education stated to3ay that the following , 'resolutions had been adopted at last week's meeting of the Education Council: —"That in the opinion of the counciPnational scholarships should be tenable only at secondary and endowed schools as defined by the jict, district high schools and technical iigh schools." "That those already in receipt of free education in secondary Schools, district high schools, and technical high schools be not excluded from candidature for junior national scholarships." '"That with regard to free places in technical schools held by those who ire employed during the day in districts ■where tbe compultory clauses oi the Act are not ; n force, frre places in their present form should be abolished; that fees he reduced to not more than 30/ per annum for the full course: and that bonuses equal to the fees be paid to those who make satisfactory advances at proficiency classes; and., further, that in districts where the compulsory clauses are adopted all fees should be abolished, and that in last-named district* employers should be required to give time off equivalent to one half-day a week." The council passed the following- motion unanimously.:-r"That free places be not tenable at private schools." The ii" lesolution was adopted by eight T(ses to six:—"That secondary school certificates should be obtainable at all registered secondary schools, if the conditions arc complied with, and that the Minister for Education be advised to have the Act amended accordingly/ Other resolutions were:—"That, in view of the present difficulties occasioned by the war in obtaining permanent medical inspectors for schools, temporary arrangements he made with local medical practitioners for the medical inspection of schools in country and outlying districts; that the Minister be advised that, in view of existing circumstances, thi" attention of medical inspectors should he specJaJly -greeted, for the present, to cases of special defects.' , 1