NEW REGULATIONS.
PROFICIENCY EXAMINATION. tPBESS ASSOCIATION TELEQ2i.iI.) DUNEDIN, October 29. The new proficiency examination regulations, brought down within a few weeks of that test Vvithont warning, are severely commented upon by teachers as an unfair attempt to effect economies at the oxpense of children well fitted for a secondary school career. Tliero will bo no aqcrediting this yoar, and many will fail. One lioiidinaster said a similar attempt lo decrease passings was made about three years ago, when the task of stiffening the examination was left to the inspectors. The Otago officers were tho only ones to sot a new standard, with a result that the percentage of Otago passes fell enormously.
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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20381, 30 October 1931, Page 10
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112NEW REGULATIONS. Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20381, 30 October 1931, Page 10
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