Education post in Boston

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33693, 16 November 1974, Page 6

Education post in Boston

A graduate of the University of Canterbury, Dr Nathlie Badian. has been appointed administrator of a child evaluation team for schools in a town near Boston.

The position has been created as a result of a new Massachusetts state law. AU children with special needs I must now be integrated into ithe classroom. Slow leam|ers, mentally retarded, deaf [or disabled children had preiviously been taught in special classes.

Dr Badian is in charge of a team which is evaluating the needs of individual children with problems from nursery to high school age. The team will be dealing with about 3000 children.

A pupil of St Margaret’s College, Dr Badian graduated BA. from the Univesity of Canterbury, and M.A. with first class honours in Greek from Victoria University in 1949.

| She gained her M.Sc. from Buffalo University in 1970, and her Doctorate in Education at Boston University

last year. Dr Badian has done extensive research work in the field of disadvantaged children. Last year she received a grant of $3OOO to do research at the Boston Children’s Hospital.

Before her marriage to Professor Badian in 1950, she was Nathlie Wimsett. Her parents, Mr and Mrs H. L. Wimsett, live in Napier.

Education conference. — New Zealand will be represented at an international conference on teachers’ policies being held in Paris from November 26 to 29. The delegates will be the district senior inspector of primary schools at Dunedin, Mr B. K. Gainsford, who is studying in London, and the president of the Educational Institute, Mr R. I. Goldsmith.—(P.A.)