Lines ‘may blur’ between schools

Press, 1 August 1989, Page 23

Lines ‘may blur’ between schools

PA Dunedin Traditional barriers between early childhood,' primary, secondary and tertiary education may become blurred in the future, says the chief executive of the Education Review Office, Mr Maurice Gionotti. A city institution with the character of an “urban area'school” may not be unheard of, Mr Gionotti tqld delegates at the final 1 conference of

the New Zealand Education Boards Association in Dunedin. “There are many parents who wish their children could begin their pre-school education at one school and remain there until they had completed their secondary schooling. More of these kind of options may become available,” he said. “The rigid barriers between different educational boundaries are

slowly coming down. “Teachers colleges have teacher training under one roof. In-service training for teachers is often done across the board and the new School Trustees Association brings together school trustees for both primary and secondary schools. “The largely definite boundaries of the past are becoming blurred,” Mr Gionotti said. In his attempt to visual-

In his attempt to visual-

ise the future of education in New Zealand, Mr Gionotti said there will be a move for schools from dependence to independence. “Any institution which needs 43 green manuals to run it is based on incompetence and dependence,” he said. The green manuals are an Outline of Education Department policy on how school matters should be dealt with.