INTERCHANGE OF TEACHERS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 210, 29 May 1908, Page 4

INTERCHANGE OF TEACHERS.

| DISCUSSION 'BY THE EDUCATION , l BOARD. , , t.;7-' •: '•/ The' Wellington' Education Board .had ;be-. t'f'- ■' foro it, at its meeting yesterday,:the question! v ■ ;.- . of; tho proposed interohango of - teachers 'and l ! inspectors with Mother parts-'of the 'Empire. I ' This matter was very-fully, treated in tho p ; ■ '•> , ' columns of, The Dominion recently, 'when ' a fV. ': - copy of the circular forwarded 'to tho Board [ V ;y.-'.: : M by'tho hon, secretary to' tho League of the ."Empire (Mr. Ord: Marshall) was published' Pt,: with, shortly after, an explanation of tho j .schemo as reported in interviews, by our re-' ! presentative,' with' Messrs.- G. Hogben (Inf; spector-General of Schools), \V. Gray (Prin- ' cipal of the Training Col lego), and \V. T. j • Grundy (headmaster of tho Clyde Quay | v School). Both Mr. Hogben and.Mr. Grundy : were presont, at the Imperial'■ Conference 'on i - ' Education held in London in , June of dast -..''year-; : and-\the'proposal/, for;--an! interchange [Vr.1.'..". of teachers' emanated 'from recommendations i, . . adopted in that direction by tho ."Imperial ' ' Conference. ' . , ;,.V. Tho Board's secretary. (Mr.' G. L. Stewart) !, ■- ■ read the circular from the secretary of . tho j:-t .'.. .. League of.tho Empire, in''wbicli.it was'st&ted; |: ::'V . that, the London County Council and-tho" ir;municipal bodies of other large centres wero - !■ ■.!.-■ prepared to assist, in the carrj'ing out of tho ( . scheme, and to mako arrangements' for • facili- | • - tating tho reception of duly accredited 7 teachers. J Mr. Aithen.'pioved that Miss Hall'(of the ! Training' College), and Miss Hutchen (New- •' .." town District High School), who wero : at prch sent in England, Miss* Fitch (Training' Colli -. : '! lege), wlio .proposed to go abroad shortly, and / any other .teachers who might bo going-Home. ; bo accreditcd. 1 .- ! , Captain M'Donald 1 suggested that a copy of i ; tho 'circular bo sont to tho. Teachers' Insti- )- V, ' tute. Ho might add a query—What'about ;.-. i tho inspectors? ' ,'. {" Mr. Field said ho understood that Mr. j' ! Fleming (senior inspector) was '.going Homo ' : next year. . . ._ ;. • ■ Tho Chairman' (Mr. Lee) said that the mat- ■ ter was for tho Education Department to ■ arrange. 7 The Board had merely to make rtU commendations. . ' Mr. Aitken's motion, to which was added | tho ouggcstion by Captain M'Donald that a ; . copy of tlio circular be forwarded to the Institute, was adopted. ' .