DIRECTOR-GENERAL TO RETIRE

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31029, 7 April 1966, Page 11

DIRECTOR-GENERAL TO RETIRE

Mr A. E Campbell, Director-General of ' Education, will retire at the end of Anril " '

four of these years and for I some of the following tivo c years); Senior University I v Scholar in Education (1927): ! MA. First Class Honours on Education (1929); Diploma in , Education (1929). 1 Employment: 1926, Librar- , lan. and. assistant lecturer IJ in history, Wellington c Teachers’ Training College preceded by a short period 1 as a relieving teacher at the Pahiatua District High t School and the Mangahao School). 1927-29. Assistant teacher in t primary schools. Relieved at | r Lyall Bay and Eastern Hutt. Permanently appointed to; t Petone West. i t 1929-33. Assistant lecturer, i c

then lecturer it/ education, Victoria University College. During this period, and later, conducted W.E.A. tutorial classes in child psychology and kindred subjects. 1934-35. Assistant secretary. New Zealand Educational Jnstitute, and editor of ‘National Education." Continued, lecturing in education at Victoria University College. 1936-38, Lecturer in education. Victoria University College. During 1937-38 was

Director of W.E.A. tutorial classes in the Victoria University College District. 1939-52 Director, New Zealand Council for Education Research. 1952-58, Chief Inspector of Primary Schools, Department of Education. 1959, Assistant Director of Education. 1960-66 Director of Education. Membership of committees: Consultative Committee on the Post-Primary School Curriculum (1942); Consultative .ommittee on Adult Education (1945): chairman, Consultative Committee on the Recruitment. Education and

The following summary of his career lists appointments but not the many personal contributions he has made to education in this country:— Mr Campbell was born at Karere (near Palmerston North) on August 13, 1906. Education: West End School. Palmerston North (1913-19): Palmerston North Boys’ High School (1920-23); Wellington Teachers' Train-i ing College (1924-25); Victoria University College (1924-29? part-time student for the first

Training of Teachers (1949): foundation member of National Commission for Unesco and Chairman (ex officio) since 1960; chairman for a period of the Education Sub-commission; co-opted member for some years of the National Council for Adult Education: Arts Advisory Council and the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council: deputychairman, Maori Education Foundation; chairman. Joint Committee on Young Offenders.

Experience abroad: represented. New Zealand at the conference that drew up the constitution of Unesco (London, 1945), and studied education in Britain for two months early in 1946; studied education in United States, Canada, and Australia, on a Carnegie Visitors’ Grant August, 1949 to March 1950; served as a Unesco consultant at the Regional Seminar on the Primary Seminar onthe the Primary School Curriculum in South East Aaia (Kararchi, 1956) leader, New Zealand delegation, Second Commonwealth Education Conference, New Delhi, January 1962 rapporteur, 1.L.0. meeting of experts on salaries, superannuation, and conditions of service of teachers, Geneva, 1958; member of New Zealand delegation, 11th General Conference of Unesco, Paris, 1958, leader. New Zealand delegation, 13th General Conference of Unesco, Paris, 1964; in 1962 and 1964 visited Malaya, Singapore, and the Borneo territories to examine and report upon existing and projected Colombo Plan activities in the educational field.

Publications: These include “Educating New Zealand” (1941) centennial series; “Higher Education and its Future” (1943), N.Z.C.E.R.; “The Feilding Community Centre” (1945), N.Z. Council for Educational Research: “The Control of Post-Primary Schools” (1948), N.Z.C.E.R.: “Modern Trends in Education,” editor, with C. L. Bailey; articles on education in New Zealand in the “Educational Yearbook” and the “Year Book of Education.”

Recent Years: As Director, Mr Campbell had the task of implementing some recommendations of the Commission of Education which reported in 1962, including the introduction of the three-year course of primary teachertraining. establishment of Form I-VI high schools and the setting up of a Curriculum Development Unit within the Education Department. During his period as Director, the Education Act 1964 was passed. This was the first complete consolidation of the law relating to education since 1914. Mr Campbell was awarded the C.M.G. in the New Year Honours List, 1966.