OVERSEAS STUDY OF EDUCATION

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27025, 28 April 1953, Page 8

OVERSEAS STUDY OF EDUCATION

TOUR PLANNED BY MR CARTWRIGHT

UNIVERSITY AND TEACHER CONFERENCES

Mr W. J. Cartwright, who is chairman of the Canterbury University College Council, chairman of the Christchurch Post-primary Schools’ Board of Governors, and a former president of the New Zealand Educational Institute, will be away for four months this year. He will attend the congress of the Association of Universities of the British Commonwealth and the conference of the World Confederation of Organisations of the Teaching Profession in England, and will then visit the United States and Canada on a grant frofti the Carnegie Corporation. Mr and Mrs Cartwright will leave Christchurch on June 22 and fly to London. Early in July they will visit the Universities of North Staffordshire and Bangor and then return to London for a reception of congress delegates by the University of London, which will precede the week's congress at Cambridge. Toward the end of the month Mr Cartwright will go to Scotland to visit the Universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow, and St. Andrews.

The World Confederation of Organisations of the Teaching Profession will meet at Oxford early in August, .and Mr Cartwright will represent the teaching profession in New Zealand. He will then visit Belfast University and make a short trip to the Continent,

As Mr Cartwright visited the United States in 1949 at the invitation of the National Educational Association of America, he will confine his visits there mostly to centres on the two seaboards and cross North America through Canada. The National Educational Association is arranging calls in New York and Washington, and then he will go by way of Boston to McGill University, Montreal, and examine the school system of Canada. This study will continue at Ottawa with the co-opera-tion of the Canadian Teachers’ Federation. More observations will be made at the University, of Toronto and to secondary schools of the province. School boards will be consulted at Calgary and Vancouver, where the University of British Columbia will also be visited. The last stage of Mr Cartwright’s observations will be made from San Francisco through the Unlveriity of California, the 'State Department of Education, the' Sacramento elementary schools, the junior and senior high schools, the junior colleges and State colleges. Mr and Mrs Cartwright will leave San Francisco for New Zealand on October 30.