SECONDARY SCHOOLS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 109, 11 May 1933, Page 10

SECONDARY SCHOOLS.

OFFICERS OF ASSOCIATION. (By Telegraph.—rress Association.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. The conference of the New Zealand Registered Secondary Schools' Association was continued to-day. The conference decided to urge the University and the Education Department to institute tins year the school certificate, to be awarded in 1933 on the results of the university entrance examination to candidates who pass in English and any four other subjects in the present syllabus. The University Senate is to be recommended that no candidate under the age of 18 be enrolled by a university college unless the candidate can show adequate evidence of four years of approved secondary schooling. The following resolution was passed: "That the conference believes the education system should use games as a means of developing sound standards of character and conduct, but views with alarm the present tendency to lay too much stress on winning matches, and to emphasise overmuch their competitive aspect and to give undue prominence to the results of inter-school contests." Officers were electcd as follow:— President, Mr. A. K. Anderson (St. Andrew's College); vice-president, Rev. A. K. Archdall (King's College): secretary and treasurer, Mr. R. J. Richards (Christ's College); executive, Mrs. S. G. Young (St. Margaret's College), Miss N. Enderby (Amberley House), Father Burger (St. Bede's College), Brother O'Connor (St. Kevin's College), Mr. N. Gibson (Dilwortli School), and Mr. J. R. Sutcliffe (Scot's College).