SECONDARY EDUCATION
MINISTERIAL STATEMENT. 9 SYLLABUS NEEDS REVISING [Per United Press Association.] GISBORNE, December 10. At a civic reception' this morning the Hon. C. J. Parr, Minister of Education, made an imporlant statement in regard to secondary education. The Minister said that New Zealand was ahead of any country in the Empire in the provision for post-primary education. The high schools had become the people's schools. Over 20,003 children were in these secondary schools. It was necessary to take stock and scs how we stood. Only one in twelve pupils wont on to the university and the professions. The university amination was not the right objective. It gave a bias the wrong way. There waa serious overlapping between the secondary and technical schools. It would do good to review the position, and he had asked Mr Frank Tate (Director of Education in Victoria, and the strongest educationist in Australia), who intends visiting Now Zealand in February, to give theGovernniont a report on the whole subject.
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Evening Star, Issue 18812, 10 December 1924, Page 6
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165SECONDARY EDUCATION Evening Star, Issue 18812, 10 December 1924, Page 6
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