POST-PRIMARY COURSES

Evening Star, Issue 19952, 23 August 1928, Page 6

POST-PRIMARY COURSES

CRITICISE OF REVISION COMMITTEE [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, August 23. The Technical Schools’ Conference held a discussion on the reorganisation of the post-primary education scheme, in the course of which the Syllabus Revision Committee's work came in for tome uncomplimentary criticism. The following resolution was tarried;—(l) “Wherever possible, pupils should be transferred to a postprimary school two years earlier than at present (as advocated in the Jladow Report, and by the New Zealand Syllabus Revision Committee). (2) “There should ho more than one type of post-primary school (as advocated in the liadow Report, hut not by the New Zealand Syllabus Revision Committee) in those centres where the number of pupils warrants their establishment. (3) “ The proposed introduction of secondary subjects into the primary schools’ syllabus should not lie allowed to work in the direction of a general revival of standard VH. in centres served by post-primary schools, thus bringing about the establishment of ‘ tops ’ to primary schools.”