EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 4, 5 January 1907, Page 2

EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE.

[BT TBLEGRAPtt. — PRESS ASSOCIATION.) , CHRISTCHRCH, 4th January. Tho following motions were adopted by the Educational Institute at to-day's conference : — 1. That to render the system of primary education a national one, it is necessary that the inspectors should bo under tho direct control of the Education Department. 2. That the inspectorate should be centralisod. 3. That tho Minister of Education bo again asked to make the conditions referring to the conveyance of children moro elastic than those now in force, and that tho executive be requested to conduct a campaign with tho object of edu- . eating public opinion on tills subject. 3. That tbt> attention of tho Education Department be drawn to the need of a more rigid observance of that regulation which directs inspectors to devote tb» .major portion of their time at the annual ■wViaib _to _iaiesfci«ata*^^thfi . .c&aractox .of

the teaching, and the degree of intelligence attained by the pupils, rather than in measuring the quantity of knowledge possessed. 4. That the institute is strongly in favour of a colonial system of promotion of teachers. 5. That the New Zealand Educational Institute urge upon the Minister for Education the impossibility of formulating a suitable scheme for the payment of teachers while the teacheTs' salaries depend upon and are influenced by the average attendance. 6. That the Minister for Education be requested to amend the scale of salaries for teachers so that no certificated teacher in sole charge of a school receive a salary lower than £110 per annum. 7. That the Minister for Education be requested to place a sum on tho Estimates to provide teachers' dwellings with the ordinary conveniences of life, and that the Government be asked to provide foT the regulaT inspection of school children by medical men and dentists. 8. That the Minieter be asked to secure I provision that no teacher's salary be reduced by reason of a reduced average, attendance until such teacher should have declined to accept transfer to a higher or a similar position. 9. That the Minister be asked to refuse the erection of a new school unless a salary of at least £110 per annum be granted. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: — President, Mr. J. Aitken (Wanganui) ; treasurer, Mr. T. Hughes (Christchurch) ; secretary, Mr. W. Foster (Wellington) ; members of tho executive, Messrs. G. W. Murray and J/F. Rowley (North Island), M. J. Caucjhley (Wellington education district), J. H. HnrkneEs (South Island) ; trustee, Mr. C. Watson, Wellington.