SECONDARY EDUCATION.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 118, 21 May 1931, Page 14

SECONDARY EDUCATION.

ENTRANCE EXAMINATION.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. The executive of the Secondary Schools' Association placed on record its high appreciation of the late Mr. J. P. Firth, former head of Wellington College, over whose destinies he so ably presided for 28 years. The secretary was instructed to write to the registrar of the New Zealand University to request that each year the school principals be supplied with a statement of the percentage of passes in each subject for all candidates in the university entrance examination. It was decided to support the proposal that the entrance examinations begin 011 the second Tuesday of December each year, instead of the first. Tiie following recommendations are to be forwarded to the Director of EduEnglish and arithmetic should be the only compulsory subjects for the intermediate examination. The present limitation of subjects is exercising a cramped influence on the whole curriculum, and certain valuable subjects are being completely crowded out. That 111 view of the fact that Latin or French is required by the primary school syllabus, one of these be allowed as an alternative to mathematics 111 the Training College entrance examination. A committee was set up to co-opt the assistance of the secondary school t teachers in the direction of prepai ing for j publication articles dealing Wl "\ development, purposes, aims and ideals I of secondary education.