NOTED EDUCATIONIST

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22082, 3 May 1937, Page 8

NOTED EDUCATIONIST

VISITOR FOR CONFERENCE IN NEW ZEALAND Mr E. Salter Davies, Director of Education for Kent, will attend the New Zealand sessions of the New Education Fellowship conference; Mr Davies is one of the best-known directors, of education in the world and prominent in ‘ the. library sphere, being president of the Library Association of England. Mr Salter Davies has been Director of Education for Kent since 1918, and life trustee to the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust since 1924. Apart from his work as Director'of Education, he has taken leading parts in the work of numerous organisations, including the capacity of expert adviser of army education. He is. a member of the national advisory council for the Ministry of Labour, a member of the executive committee of the British Broadcasting Corporation School Broadcasting Council, the Film Institute, the National Council of Social Service, the Educational Reform Council, the Departmental Committee on Public Libraries, 1924, executive committees of the National Central Library for Students, Association of Education Committees, County Councils, and the Association of Directors and Secretaries of Education. Mr Salter Davies was educated at Haverford-West Grammar School and University College, Aberystwyth, and was classical scholar at Jesus College, Oxford. From 189596 he was a master at Glasgow Academy, and from 1897-1904 master at Cheltenham Grammar School. Till 1918 he acted as Inspector for Higher Education in Kent. In i92i he was elected president of the New Education Fellowship (English section)- .. ' Among his numerous publications are “The Aim of Education,” “The Reorganisation of Education in England.” “Education for Industry and for Life,” and “Technical Education.” 1 -