TECHNICAL EDUCATION.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1061, 25 February 1911, Page 3

TECHNICAL EDUCATION.

■ 1A FORWARD STEP. . j NEW REGULATIONS COMMENDED ' ' j . Now regulations'/governing'-technical. .?J education wore reported -oil as followsr _<i a t the meeting of the .Technical Educa--v j tion Board-last- evening by the Director- -1 of/the Technical School (Mr. W. La "1 Trobe): — "The Education .Department, has is-.- 1 :J cued new regulations for technical j classes, copies of which I received \cs- I terday. Havo not had time to study - i the new regulations thoroughly, but j they seem to nio to point to a much- - j more satisfactory "arrangement "of j school work than has hitherto, been pos- ' ' able. They will also require the osub- i lishnient and equipment of-classes for: ? which hitherto :we have riot been .abler v: to provide. To meet the demands of . these new regulations, a largc ! part ofthe evening .work will have: to. be re- * organised! From ijhe 'financial point ■ of view Ido not think we can cxpcct ;] rto be,placed' in, any better,position for: r. 5 some time, though ultimately the in--!;-come should be somewhat increased by the new rates of. capitation. Tho capitation hitherto earned in. the junior.: day classes: has-been reduced from £15 ; to £12"10s.-per. student for. tho- firstyear,' and from £15 to £13 155. ; for'* the second year. !. On our - present at- r; tendance this .will'mean a loss of about; £500 per annum in capitation. On the .'i other hand rules of capitation for other than day, technical classes have been-raised-for those students who are-.-j making a serious study of-some special : ~ trade, and areprepared to go through: " • a three or years' course. •/ -. -,j "How far we shall be ablo to mako . i up for the loss of £500 on our 'day s | classes by''the increases in- -senior / i courses. jn:Our.;evening classes I" can- r*.v| not'say, '.hiirt'l,' am" of opinion that we i shall find biit little difference in our . - i total receipts at the end of the first >! year. '. "The increased importance •given'".un-''' ,, : , '1 der this capitation scneme to the mathe- i matical and scientific sulo of the work •• j in air departments except art and art "-v i craf.ts.__and:.ihc.; increased importance\ •given/to. original in art and art > < -craf£s,'are-an' excellenl feature of.these V:.'• regulations,' and will, I hope, tend ,to corfect a common and erroneous- : im-;/ ! pression that tho technical : schools ' should ' provide ' "training mainly .in manual dexterity. A committee, consisting of lless'rs. i"VV. Allan, J. P. Luke, M.P.; D. Robert-. ' son," and! jr. E.. Fitzgerald,; was - appointed by.tho board:to consider ijhe direct- : ors report, and report -at the--nest-; ■ meeting of the board as_ to additional. appliances that will be required under ; .the new regulations.