Principals want U.E. abolished

Press, 4 July 1978, Page 6

Principals want U.E. abolished

PA Rotorua . New Zealand’s post-prim- ! ary principals want the University Entrance examli tion abolished from next year. One qualification should apply at Form 6 level — not !the University Entrance examination — according to the principals, in a resolu--1 tion passed at the national I conference of secondary ; school principals, in. Roi torua.

The principals’ advisory committee of the Post Primarv Teachers’ Association will consider this resolution, along with other remits. To a certain extent, the call to abolish the University Entrance examination has endorsed a view already held by the P.P.T.A.

The association wants a sixth form certificate, and to have pupils pass the bursary examination in the seventh

form to qualify for university education. In another remit, the principals called for the university bursary examination to be” based 0.1 a maximum of four subjects from next vear.

A remit on “conscientious convictions” was passed by a vote of 69 to 57. It asks the advisory committee to frame an amendment to the code of ethics, to “give respect to the conscientious convictions of loyal members of the association who are unable to give support to some individual points of association policy.” Members were in favour of rural schools having better access to services of the Correspondence School. The principal of Waiau College (Mr J. I. McLean) said that rural pupils had the same i right to education as city 1 pupils and that the Correspondence School was in a [position to.help.