THE EDUCATION CONFERENCE. SUBJECTS FOR DISCUSSION.

Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 59, 7 September 1905, Page 5

THE EDUCATION CONFERENCE. SUBJECTS FOR DISCUSSION.

[BY TELEGRAPH — rRESS ASSOCIATION.I CHRISTOHURCH,"6th September. For the Conference of Education Boards, to be held at Wellington, tho following list of subjects is suggested for submission to the North Canterbury Education Board's representatives : — 1. The general relation of the Boards to the Department. 2. Restrictions placed on Education Boards in regard to the expenditure of the building grant. 3. Training of teachers, the provision for staffing, and the question of its sufficiency. 4. School books; the advisability or otherwise of securing greater uniformity. 5. Relation of primary education to secondary, university, and technical instruction. 6. The necessity of more assured finance in connection with technical education as regards both buildings and administration. 7. The Manual and Technical Instruction Act in relation to the carrying op of a. "school" as distinguished from "continuation" and "technical" classes. 8. Small country schools; the difficulty of obtaining suitable teachers. 9. Scholarship and pupil teacher examination in relation to thb change recently introduced by the Department. 10. Sparsely populated districts ; the needs of settlers as regards the instruction of their children. 11. Staffs and salaries ; the • need of some measure of freedom allowing a temporary adjustment of salaries. 12. Classification of teachers, including appointments, promotions, and transfers. 13. Freedom of classification in relation to Uie promotion of pupils from Standards 111., IV., and V. 14. Whether interchange of Inspectors by arrangement between Boards is desirable. 15. Whether 'the system of payment on average attendance should be abolished in favour of fixed salaries. 16. Clearer definition regarding committees' powers of appointing teachers. 17, Question of school discipline.