SCHOOL INSPECTORATE

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 54, 5 March 1914, Page 8

SCHOOL INSPECTORATE

SUGGESTED REFORMS. (BT mSQK/ltH.— PKBSS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, 4th Mawh. At this morning's meeting of the BoartL of Education, Mr. E. C Purdie, Vhief inspector, subniitted proposals which ho has framed with regard, to reforms that fere admittedly desirable in the organisation tof the inspectorate. Mr. Purdie convinced the board that efficiency would be increased by the l-eorganisa'tion of the staff of_ inspectors, ana it was clear that hesitation to make any change would be caused largely by financial considerations. Ultimately a eommitoee of the whole board, with the chief inspector, was set up to consider the proposal. Briefly, the effect of Mr.'Purdie's motions regarding the inspectorate was the division of tlie education district into three areas — northern, metropolitan, and southern— each to be in charge "of a senior inspector, with other inspectors controlling sub-aeas of a specified number of schools under a senior inspector. The chief inspector would direct and supervise the work of education throughout the whole education district, and it was suggested that sufficient extra inspectors be appointed forthwith to enable the scheme to be carried out on the lines indicated.