EDUCATION PROBLEMS.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 47, 25 February 1929, Page 8

EDUCATION PROBLEMS.

TEACHING STANDARD RAISED. POST-PRIMARY POLICY. QUESTION OF THE TOP CLASSES. —— ' (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, this day. A proposal of the Education Department not to appoint a successor to an organising teacher who had left the Taranaki district was the subject of representations to the Minister of Education. Hon. A. Atmore. by the Taranaki Education Board.

The "Mmister replied that the provision ■if training colleges and modol country schools had raised the standard of teachers and done away with the necessity of organising teachers. He was not surprised to hear that the inspectors "ould not find sufficient work for them. Whereas three jears ago there were 332 uncertified teachers in Taranaki. to-day ithere was onlv one.

In reply to numerous applications for increased accommodation, the Minister -aid nothing would be done until some deri-ion bad been in adv. regarding the general policy of po-t-primary education, a pronouncement regarding which iwould be made in about a fortnight. If the top classes were taken away from the primary schools the position would be relieved, although accommodation would have to he found somewhere. I The Minister will leave New Plymouth ito-morrow for the North, and will spend I the nicrht at Awakino.