TEACHERS’ TRAINING CONFERENCE

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 117, 11 February 1926, Page 4

TEACHERS’ TRAINING CONFERENCE

SOMETHING ABOUT THE PROCEEDINGS. At the Victoria College Council last night, Mt. P. Levi reported that he had attended the conference on the training of teachers held on Monday last, and the matter most vitally.affecting the board was- that of the relations of professors .of education to the teachers’ training colleges. It was suggested that the professors should be heads of these colleges, but that was not generally agreed with. A resolution was passed approving of those professors having access to all types of schools in their district, and that the prdfessors and principals of training colleges be encouraged to co-oper-ate in all matters in the best interests of the students. He said that Professor Tennant had come up specially from a holiday in Central Otago to attend the conference, and his idea was that the Professor of Education should be given the rank of inspector to enable him to have authority in the schools he visited, but he could not see how he could act as head of the training college as well. Professor Hunter asked if the resolutions passed at the conference had been forwarded, and received a reply in the negative. . . It was decided that the Minister be asked to forward the motions passed, and, if possible, to send an official report of ilic speeches made there.