EDUCATION OVERSEAS

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30173, 3 July 1963, Page 17

EDUCATION OVERSEAS

Realisation Of Value

The main impression gained from his overseas visits was that education was more highly valued in other countries than in New Zealand, and people were generally more aware of the great need for education in society today, Mr C. V. Gallagher said yesterday. Mr Gallagher, the principal of Shirley Boys’ High School, returned yesterday from a three-month trip under the Woolf Fisher Trust travelling

fellowship scheme, during which he visited Britain, Norway, Sweden, Israel and the United States, studying trends in education and educational institutions.

“We in New Zealand are well served and very fortunate in our educational services, compared with overseas. although we do not value them so highly,” said Mr Gallagher. He had seen television used effectively in schools, as well as language laboratories and other special facilities, and thought them of value.

“They are only effective when they are functioning and being used well, however. In too many cases these things are being used as novelties. It is one thing to have the equipment and another to use it to advantage.” Mr Gallagher was back at work yesterday afternoon only a few hours after his arrival in Christchurch. He began to sort the 1964 enrolment applications, which closed on Monday.