OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM.

Evening Post, Volume XLVII, Issue 83, 9 April 1894, Page 2

OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM.

!Bt Tjsleqbapb.l [united pbksß association. i Dunedin, 7th April, The Dnncdin Branch of tho Educational Institute considered the resolutions adopted at tbo Conference of School Inspectors, and expressed general approval of them. Tho Branch strongly disapproved, however, of the proposal to reduce the classification of teachers ia the ovent of marks of efficiency being lowered by Inspectors three years in succession. The meeting also declared in favour of a change in tho prosont requirements in reading. Auckland, 7th April. A meeting of the_JEducational Institute was hold to-day to consider tho report of the late Inspectors' Conference. One of the most important resolutions adopted was one approving the recommendation of the Inepoctora that no new school should be established within four miles of an existing school except in municipal districts. The Branch alao supported the recommendations that the pass system in Standards 1., ll., and 111. be abolished ; that examinations in .history be dono away with, and that tho Government be invited to have boobs drawn up on history and social economy. Some minor alterations were made in tho proposals of the Inspectors with regard to grammar and arithmetic A motion was adopted in favour of maintaining the present syllabus.