SECONDARY EDUCATION.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 114, 15 May 1924, Page 12

SECONDARY EDUCATION.

CONFERENCE RESOLUTIONS,

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. Among resolutions and remits carried at the secondary schools' conference were the' following:—

"That the Minister and Department of Education abolish the Council of Education, or failing that to. amend the constitution of the council in the direction that, teachers may obtain a greater share of representation, arid that the present anomaly be removed whereby one male and one female teacher represent the technical schools and secondary schools of 'New Zealand."

''That .the association requests the Minister to extend the provisions of the Court of Appeal Act in order to enable a teacher in all respects eligible 'for, a. higher grade position to appeal" against the appointment' of any teacher who lias not the Tequired qualifications for. that position, or who has been appointed against the recommendation of a principal."

"That the Minister be asked to make" use of existing secondary schools as a training ground for young teachers who wish to take up secondary school work."

"That the Department be asked to interpret more literally the regulations covering subsidies on voluntary contributions."

"That the Blinister of Railways be asked to amend clause 14 of the railway regulations,—free school season tickets I —by deleting the words 'available for distances not exceeding 60 miles.'"

"That modern methods 'of teaching require better equipped libraries and in large schools properly trained librarians."

"That as the rise in-salaries -was not in the nature of a ltonus, they should in justice be restored to the same rates as before the cuts."

'That the Department he urged to publish in the 'Gazette' particulars of important recent publications of education departments and educational associations in Great Britain and America, having as their aim greater efficiency in the teaching of the various subjects of the secondary school curriculum." :