EDUCATION WEEK

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 213, 3 June 1924, Page 8

EDUCATION WEEK

TO ROUSE PUBLIC INTEREST

PROPOSED EXHIBITION

“For two years past wc have had a Health Week in Wellington with, it is believed, beneficial results,” said Air. Howell, director of the Technical College, in a report submitted to Ins board last night. "In the Old Country a practice has grown up in recent years of hokling education weeks t in order to rouse the public to tho importance of education and. to inform them as to what is being accomplished in the schools. The movement is spreading. . . . The general method is to hold mi exhibition of the work done at all kinds of schools, from the kindergarten to the secondary and the technical schools; and to give displays of physical drill, organised games ana singing. As showing tho amount or interest that is aroused, it may be mentioned, that in Wolverhampton it is reported that 10,000 people, apart from children, visi'ted t<he exhibition.” Mr. Howell suggested that the Education Board be asked if they would l>e prepared, in conjunction with other authorities, to arrange for such a week at the end of the year. Tho exhibition should not. he said, be regarded as an advertisement for individual schools. Tho attitude at Home had greatly changed during the last two rears. At the beginning of this period most drastic proposals were made and some of them were put into effect for cutting down the expenditure on schools. The English Board of Education recently issued u circulai, cancelling this policy, and stating its readiness to consider favourably applications for grants for approved purposes. This change of attitude towards education had no doubt been stimulated by tho success of ‘education week’ displays. The chairman (Mr. W. H. Bennett) commended the proposal, and moved to bring the matter favourably to the notice of the Education Board, with a recommendation that an exhibition be inaugurated here. Mr. W. J. W. Pascoe suggested that application might he made to the winter show authorities for space for such an exhibition. The chairman: The winter show is in July. We had better look forward to having a good exhibition in a year’s time. . Mrs. Hannah: If we do it at all, let us do it thoroughly. Other members suggested getting the Headmasters’ Association interested. The director: There should be an united effort by all those interested in primary, secondary and technical cducation. . , . , The chairman’s motion was adopted, with the addition that a copv of the director’s report be sent to the board; also that a deputation wait on them. In reply to Mrs. Hannah. the director suggested the Town Hall as a suitable location for the exhib’tion.