COMMITTEE TO REPORT
School Certificate Examination (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, May 13. The Post-Primary Teachers’ Association today decided to ask the Department of Education to set up a committee to report on the present function of the School Certificate examination and to examine proposed amendments to it. The resolution followed an amendment to a motion that the association be instructed to ask the department to institute as soon as possible a system of accrediting the upper ability group of candidates for certificates. Mr D. Cohen (Wellington Technical College) said the present examination was “pitiful for bright students and impossible for the not-so-bright.” Many of the brighter children should not sit the examination. Dr. F. E. Gallas, headmaster of Waimea College, said the Director of Education (Dr. C. E. Beeby) had already set up a committee to see how the examination could be modernised and make the examination more flexible.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28894, 14 May 1959, Page 10
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