EDUCATION IN AUSTRALIA

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24985, 20 September 1946, Page 5

EDUCATION IN AUSTRALIA

INTEREST IN N.Z. METHODS

(P.A.) WELLINGTON. September 19. . Vital changes brought about in New Zealand in recent years were awakening intense interest in Australian educational circles, and documents explaining New Zealand’s new curricula and amended organisation were eagerly sought, said the Senior Inspector of New Zealand secondary schools (Mr H. Henderson), who represented the Education Department at the recent congress of the New Zealand and Australian Association for the Advancement of Science, in Adelaide. “The authorities in Australia are keenly interested in the New Zealand experiment, particularly -in the intermediate school system, accrediting for university entrance, and the new programme for post-primary schools. The multilateral school, too, .presents an aspect of education which is full of interest to Australians.

“Provision made in New Zealand for education is much in excess of the provision made on a per capita basis in any of the States of the Commonwealth. v The New Zealander visiting Australia is struck by the diversity of systems of education in the Commonwealth, and their differences from the system in New Zealand. All States havs a much more centralised system than that of New Zealand, New South Wales probably going farthest in this direction.

“All the States have set up tribunals to consider new salary scales for teachers. New South Wales has put into practice a new agreement, which appears to be giving satisfaction.”