LONGER SCHOOLING

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 144, 15 December 1933, Page 15

LONGER SCHOOLING

ADVANTAGES REALISED

(By Telegraph.) (Special to the "Evening Post.") DUNEDIN, This Day. The average length of stay in secondary schools for pupils leaving in 1932 was state* in the annual report of the Minister of Education as two years eleven months. In the Otago ■ Boys' High School, according to the I rector, the average for boys leaving at the end of 1932 or during the current year was three years eighteen weeks. In 1923 it was two years twenty-seven weeks, and in 1908. twq years eight weeks. The average age at leaving was.iii 1908 fifteen years eleven months, i ; After allowing for the influence of the present depression, stated the rector, it was clear there had been a steady improvement during the past twenty-five years. Parents generally had come to realise the advantages of a longer school period, and the boys themselves now had a stronger wish to stay on. It was also far more usual for boys when leaving to signify their intention of carrying on their studies in evening classes. These facts_ were a matter for very real gratification.