TECHNICAL EDUCATION

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 301, 20 December 1926, Page 20

TECHNICAL EDUCATION

MEETING OF BOARD. ADVICE TO THE MINISTER. (By Telegraph.—Special to " Star.") WELLINGTON, this day. The second meeting of the New Zealand Technical Schools' Board, established for the purpose of ad\i~i::g the Minister of Education on matters pertaining to syllabuses and courses of technical schools, and the establishment and management of examinations in technological subjects for technical school students, was held this month. The Minister of Education, Hon. R. A. Wright, who addressed the meeting, stated that the main object of the board w T as to define the content of trade courses, to establish, closer co-operation between technical day classes nnd secondary schools and avoid overlapping and unnecessary duplication. A resolution was passed to the effect that the syllabuses of each trade be referred to the corresponding apprenticeship committees, wherever they existed, and to the technical school boards, with an invitation to submit suggestions, to be in the hands of the superintendent of technical education by January 22. It was also decided to ask the Forestry Service to assist in securing supplies of New Zealand-grown timbers specially suited to cabinetmakers' uses. The establishment of a technical schools' board was advocated in the report on University Education by Sir Harry Reichel and slr. Frank Tate last year and also in the report on postprimary education by Mr. Tate. Following the reports of the commissioners, the then Minister of Education, Sir James Parr, authorised in February, 1926, the setting up of a representative committee consisting of two representatives of the Education Department, one of the Labour Department, two of the Technical School Boards, two of technical school teachers, and one of the University Senate. The powers of the board were defined to be purely advisory. The first meeting of the board was held last May.