CARNEGIE TRAVELLING GRANT

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21973, 23 December 1936, Page 16

CARNEGIE TRAVELLING GRANT

AWARD MADE TO MR G, M. KEYS Mr G. M. Keys, senior master at the Christchurch Technical College, and officer in charge of the vocational guidance bureau at the Young Men’s Christian Association, has received advice that he has been awarded a travelling grant of 2000 dollars by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The grant is to be used at the discretion of Mr Keys for investigating educational problems. Mr Keys said yesterday that he hoped to spend about 12 months abroad, mainly in the United States. He would take every opportunity to investigate vocational guidance, employment of boys, apprenticeship, and technical training, and the placement of crippled children. He wished to study the type of education corresponding to the technical schools in New Zealand and the junior high schools. In the study of vocational guidance he intended to pay attention to the organisation of work and its relation to education and industry, the place and methods of psychological testing, and apprenticeship in view of the marked changef shortly to take place in New Zealand. Mr Keys said that he hoped to take a post-graduate course at Harvard University He would visit various educational authorities in the United States, and spend some time in Canada, and later he hoped to study in England. He would seek opportunities to attend special conferences or intensive courses of study. There was no fixed limit on the time he would spend travelling. He did not know when he would be able to leave, but it would possibly be near the end of next year. Mr Keys, as well as holding the posts already mentioned, is honorary secretary of the Christchurch Boys’ Employment Committee. \t the Technical College he is supervisor of the evening school He was educated at the Palmerston North Boys’ H ; School and at Canterbury University College, where he graduated with the degree of Master of Arts and gained diplomas in education and social science. He has done research work for the New Zealand Council of Educational Research. For the last 11 years he has specialised in vocational guidance and has organised the work in other centres as well as in Christchurch. He is chairman of the vocational committee of the Canterbury and Westland branch of the Crippled Children Society. In 1926 anc. 1927, Mr Keys visited Fiji, Canada, the United States, England, and France, investigated the problems of vocational guidance, and gained teaching experience. He intends to revisit some of the educational centres he visited during this trip.