TECHNICAL COLLEGE

Evening Star, Issue 22890, 23 February 1938, Page 18

TECHNICAL COLLEGE

BOARD OF MANAGERS Those present at the monthly meeting of the King Edward Technical College Board of Managers, held yesterday afternoon, were Messrs J. J. Marlow (chairman), W. G. Hocking, C. J. Hayward, H. H. Johnson, F. L. Lawrence, J. M. Patrick, Dr R. Gardiner, Mrs W. Herbert, Miss L. Sullivan. PRINCIPAL’S REPORT. The principal’s report stated: —The school reopened on February 7. The first day’s attendance reached ■ 790, which is the highest total yet recorded. The number has since risen to 814, to which must be added 21 full-t'ime members of the school of commerce and nine full-time members of the school of art, making a total of 847 full-time students. It is exceedingly fortunate that the school has at its disposal both the new art school and the two portable rooms acquired a few years ago. Without these additional premises the three schools could not have been conducted without somo_ restriction of entries. The school received authority to appoint two student teachers, but", as one has accepted entry into the Training College instead, only one, Mr Leonard White, will be added to the staff. It is to be hoped that the school may soon take its place as a field in which student teachers in technical subjects shall be trained. Of changes in the Technical High School, it is as yet too early to speak except in two cases. One is an extension of the free work period, which has been earned or. for the last four years, but which has previously .been limited to the last teaching hour on Wednesdays; it will now include the last hour on Mondays. The second innovation is a sports afternoon for all girls. At the first of these not a single girl sought exemption, and all arrangements wore crowned with success. The senior school of commerce opened with 24 pupils on February 9. A pleasing feature of the year’s work is that practically all the pupils are fulltime. Evening classes will commence on Mopday. The following requests for additional equipment and for approval of building alterations are now before the Education Department;—Charts and maps, £140; building alterations (English department), £1,011; furniture and fittings, £1.112; electrical installation, £445; welding, £92 14s; gas fittings, £32; electrical equipment, £354; mechanical equipment, £2,012 18s 7d; science equipment, £95 12s sd. Miss J. Dighy Smith is to leave the school on February 28 after giving faithful service for 23 years as teacher of shorthand. She has had no small share in guiding the footsteps of girls through day and evening school, and in inculcating in them much that is gentle, noble, and of enduring worth, and her service has been none the less effective .from the quiet and unobtrusive way in which it has been rendered. The report was adopted. PAINTING OF SCHOOL. It was reported that the Education Department had accepted the lowest tender in the sum of £326 for the painting of the exterior of the school. The work was put in hand before Christmas, and would ho completed at an early date. Ono-third of the cost would be paid by the board and the remainder by the department.