EXAMINATIONS
NEW REGULATIONS
VIGOROUS CRITICISM
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
DUNEDIN, This Day.
The new proficiency examination regulations, brought down within a few weeks of that test without warning, are severely commented upon by teachers as an unfair attompt to effect economies at tho expense of children well fitted for a secondary school career. Thero will be no accrediting this year, and many will' fail. One headmaster said a similar attempt to decrease passings was mado somp three years ago, when the task of stiffening the examination was left to the inspectors. Tho Otago officers, were the only ones to set a new standard, with the result that the percentage of 'Otago passes . fell enormously. This' teacher described tho. ■ provincial inspectorial attitudo at that time as a damnable -iniquity." ■____
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 104, 29 October 1931, Page 15
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127EXAMINATIONS Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 104, 29 October 1931, Page 15
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