REASONS FOR CONTINUANCE

Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 149, 21 December 1921, Page 8

REASONS FOR CONTINUANCE

; Miss M'Lean, principal of the college, in an interview with a Post reporter, was emphatic in expressing the opinion that the junior department was most valuable to the college, and that it should be continned. It was true that the lease of the present building occupied by the juniors had another year to run, but it seemed to be a desire on the part of the. Department to close down the junior branches as soon as possible. • The Department, she said, was not in favour of junior departments, but there were regulation? providini that where such branches of the school were paying they could be carried on. In determining the expenses the proportion had not been struck on a fair basis. Rent had been included, whereas a former Minister of Education had intimated that rent 'was - not to be charged against such cotleges. In any case, the suggestion that rooms in the girls' hostel might be used for the juniors was quite practicable, but that accommodation would nnt be suitable for free-place pupils. Miss M'Lean believed that the Department wj« showing that it did not favour the junior branches by indicating that for the evident shortage of accommodation for senior pupils the juniors would have to go. "My contention is,"'she stated, "that we are not using for the juniors any accommodation that would be suitable for the seniors, as the present regulations require large classes." There were very many reasons for continuing the junior department.