CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOLS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 4, 5 July 1938, Page 13

CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOLS

CONFERENCE ARRANGED

DR BUTCHERS TO ATTEND

Plans are now well advanced for the holding of an international conference on correspondence education at Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, commencing on August 22, 1938, the Minister of.' Education,' (the ;Hori. P. Fraser) ■ stated today. Cabinet had approyed'of the acceptance of the invitation issued recently by the Minister of Education for British Columbia to the heads of all State Departments of Education in ! Canada and the United States, ' Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Central and South American Republics, Russia, and some other European countries in whiph correspondence i education is carried on.

Arrangements had been made for New Zealand to be represented at the conference by Dr. A. G. Butchers, headmaster of the Education Department's Correspondence School^ who will leave by the R.M.S. Aorangi on July 12. -

The main objectives, of the conference are. to bring together educationists prominent in the movement for correspondence instruction and supervised correspondence study from different countries, and tb afford them opportunities for an exchange of experiences and an examination of widely different points of view, for the evaluation of results already achieved and the consideration of unsolved and difficult problems, and for the examination of different methods and a possible standardisation of the most approved procedures in the preparation of courses and in administration; In short, an attempt will be made to de-< termine* such policies as. will make for the most effective utilisation of the correspondence method of instruction. In committee and round-table discussions many practical problems concerning best methods of conducting correspondence instruction in schools as well as with individual.students in the home will be considered, as also its connection with the larger problem of adult education.