TECHNICAL SCHOOLS
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A request that technical schools should remain under the control of boards directly responsible to the Education Department was made by Mr. L. R. R. Denny, president of the New Zealand Technical School Teachers' Association.
Mr. Denny said that technical schools drew their pupils from a wide range of primary schools, and were co-oper-ating with other post-primary schools in providing for their pupils' instruction in special subjects not available in the ordinary secondary schools. They linked primary schools with the university colleges, with trades, industries, commerce, and agriculture. Recognition of the fact that technical schools were of a special type doing special work in multi-lateral courses, and that in consequence they required, a special type of controlling authority and specialist inspectors had been ignored in the Bill. That was so clearly recognised and provided for in the Atmore Report that the association felt strongly that certain features of the Bill, if put into effect, would be detrimental to technical education. Adequate safeguards for the development of technical education should be provided by the retention of the present po\ver given to technical school" boards and the election of representatives of technical, education on the education boards. Under the Bill it was possible for technical interests, both of teachers and of boards,- to obtain no direct representation at all.
Education could be improved pnly by decentralisation' and a specific definition was required of the functions of the central authority and of local boards. -. ■■
"We desire to recommend that technical schools should remain as at present under the control of boards directly responsible to the Education Department," said. Mr. Denny. "There can be no question that technical education has made amazing growth in the last twenty years. This growth is due in large measure to the liberal interpret tation of regulations allowed by the Department, and the freedom permitted to develop the schools in relation to the needs of the district and community." , ~
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 82, 7 April 1938, Page 10
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