THE SCHOOL AGE

Evening Star, Issue 19518, 28 March 1927, Page 5

THE SCHOOL AGE

POST-PRIMARY EDUCATION JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS FAVORED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, March 27. Australia and New Zealand arc closely interested in the main recommendations of the report of Sir Henry Hadow’s Government Committee on the education of the adolescent, urging the extension of- the school age to fifteen years, of which the years from five to eleven should be spent in the elementary school and those from eleven onwards in the secondary school.' Lord Eustace Percy has now announced that Cabinet generally approves the principle, hut does not share the committee’s fear that local authorities will be unwilling to assent, except with legislative compulsion. Ho expresses the opinion that a local authority should make it worth while for the children to do the 11-15 post-pri-mary course. The question of finance, which is necessarily dependent on -economic conditions, would arise afterwards. Sir James Parr states that the Tait Commission virtually . nticipated the Hadow report two years ago, but its recommendations were only tentatively carried out. The proposals are of supreme importance, not only to Britain, but to_ Australia and New Zealand. It is believed that when the lastnamed countries’ 40,000 teachers have studied the report they will endorse the British teachers’ opinion that all children above the age of eleven should enter higher super-senior classes or junior high schools. .