EDUCATION ELSEWHERE.

Evening Post, Volume LXI, Issue 87, 15 April 1901, Page 5

EDUCATION ELSEWHERE.

"Gleanings from English School Board Reports" was the subject of an interesting payer read before the Wellington Educational institute on Safcuwiuy by Mr. L. WfttSon, headmaster of the Willisstreet school. Mr Watson showed that the Lotraon School Boards exercised a general supervision over elementary edu- . cation, and hafl the power to establish schools for the deaf, blind and mentally deficient, and to carry on industrial and evening schools, arid were able to levy lates. Many of the schools were free, and fees were seldom over threepence per weeki but the 'collecting fees add the recording of the hours of attendance, and much other registration work, was a great burden, Numtti'ous Organising experts and- teachers were employed for such subiects as music, manual instruction, cookery, drill, art, and swimming, etc. Owing to 1 ait esfceltent system of house-to-house visitation the school attendance average was very high. At Home the overage salary of a head master is £295. and that of a head-mistress, £217, while tire minimum salary fot si teacher is £88. Mr. Watson described the iftethtfd of "training teachers tit Home, showing that the work is done more systenlatically than in New Zealand. The Institute passed a' hearty vote of thatfktf to Mr. Watson lot bis pttpdr.