REPORT SUMMARISED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 165, 15 July 1930, Page 9

REPORT SUMMARISED.

COMMITTEE UNANIMOUS. • NATIONAL TEACHING SERVICE exploratory school courses. (Bj- Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this day. The Education Committee's recommendations may be briefly summarised ss follows: —/ (1) Termination of primary education at 11 plus years of age. (2) Compulsory post-primary education to 15 years, (3) Exploratory courses (11 plus to 13 years) to determine aptitudes for further full-time education for continuers, or for employment (for leavers), accompanied, ■wherever possible, by continued evening education. (4) Consolidation of schools and classes. (5) Scholarship funds to' be used for maintenance bursaries to assist deserving pupils to continue their post-primary education to higher stages. Present system of allocating national scholarships to be abandoned. (6) Prominence to be given to agriculture in all school curricula. (7) Unification -of administrative organisation and control within each unit of educational authority. Reduction of principal local controlling authorities from 54 to IS. (S) Readjustment of functions of central and local eduoatioual authorities. (9) A national teaching service with new salary scale, and one teachers' register for the whole service. The committee comprised Messrs. W. A. Bodkin (chairman), the Hon. H. Atmore (Minister of Education), the Rev. Clyde Carr," Messrs. G. C. C. Black, Peter Fraser, Henry Holland, T. W. McDonald, Hon. A. J. Murdoch, G. R. Sykes and J. A. Young.- . Their recommendations are unanimous.