CHILDBED'S TRAINING

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 108, 10 May 1933, Page 11

CHILDBED'S TRAINING

INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLS

■-■; The establishment of intermediate schools was considered by the New Zealand Educational Institute conference today, when the' following remit from Otagp was before delegates:— ' "That the New Zealand Educational Institute opposes strenuously the new reorganisation regulations issued: under Order in Council of December 15, 1932, in that, they are contrary to the best interests of pupil and teacher because— (1) they remove pupils of Forms I anfl. II from the charge of senior-teachers to that of comparatively junior teachers; (2) they substitute' a twoyear course in 'an intermediate school for a,three-year,course as approved by the New Zealand Educational Institute and as formerly advocated i>y the Department?; (3) they are not in accordance iwith .accepted educational policy of authorities in England and other leading educational countries.". V-Mr. A.. Milne, r(Otago), who. moved the adoption of the remit, said he thought it was unfortunate that the executive of tho • New Zealand Edncaj tional Institute had not been consulted whan the regulation? were gazetted. It !was believed : that the remit was in; the best interests, of the pupils and the teachers. . ' '. .' . . . ■ -. . Mr. H. A. E. Botting (Otago) secpndea the motion; They; were: still in favour of the junior high school movement, he said, but they would like to 'see the proposal postponed till tho country could tackle it properly. t -.■■■ ■*'■■■■ ,'■ ' . • ! (trqeeeding.) '. ;,