POST-PRIMARY CERTIFICATE

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27675, 3 June 1955, Page 19

POST-PRIMARY CERTIFICATE

yVIDER FIELD OF STUDY RANGED prescriptions announced rKew Zealand Press Association) 1 WELLINGTON. June 2. chidents taking history in the 1956 S certificate examination will Py to study a wider period than hitherto. The new prewon, which gives a year’s grace <hich to consider a change in text- '■ te and alter thn syllabus, covers 1837 to 1939 instead of 1870 *l§39 in P art A ' and 1837 tiU the xjjjj time instead of from 1870 in T. part B. A prescribes a general knowof the economic, political, and history of Great Britain and Zealand, and section I, part B Scribes a general knowledge of the Jilopment of the British Commonwill also be changed prescrip- ' for 1956 in general science and ’"-ics which is to be a new paper: place of the old electricity and rtOjetism paper. A new electricity '-er more general in scope, will rethe old technical electricity jgacc examination in heat engines, for Ajj there have been very few canSates over recent years, will be set 5 the last time in 1955. ‘Homecraft and clothing prescriptions being reconsidered, an Educa,a Department official said today, ip-e had been demands for revision J various subjects to meet changed Ifflirements, he said. Last year the f* ; 2raphv prescription was narrowed, syllabus of instruction had re--sined unchanged since the report of consultative committee. The school certificate review com--ittee, comprising representatives of .„chers and the Education Department sets up ad hoc committees of Lcialists in various subjects. The ad Jc committee prepares a revised pre-i Option, which is sent to all schools, , comes back to the central comeftee. is considered, and then sent to J e ' Minister of Education for approval