DIFFERENCE OF OPINION.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 119, 16 November 1909, Page 3

DIFFERENCE OF OPINION.

COSIMITTEE AND PROFESSORS. [BY TELEGRAPH — SPECIAL TO THE POST.] CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. There is a difference of opinion between the Normal School Committee of the Education Board and certain professors at Canterbury College. The Teachers' Training College at the Normal School sends a large number of students to Canterbury College, and the principal of the Training College finds that it is desirable to obtain brief periodical report* from the professors in regard to the progress, made by the students. By this means the principal may discover points in which weak students may be strengthened, and the general results at the examinations may be improved. Some of the professors are making the reports, but others object that it is not their duty to do so. In the annual examination held recently at Canterbury College, the failures among students from the Training College were almost exclusively in two subjects upon which no reports had been sent to the principal, and it is believed that if the principal had been informed at the end of the first term which students were weak in those subjects the results would have been more satisfactory. The Education Board has drawn the attention of the Canterbury College JSoard to the position.