TECHNICAL COLLEGE

Evening Star, Issue 23038, 17 August 1938, Page 18

TECHNICAL COLLEGE

MEETING OF MANAGERS

A meeting of the Board of Managers of the King Edward Technical College was held yesterday afternoon. Present were Mr J. J. Marlow (chairman), Mrs W. Herbert, Miss L. Sullivan, Dr R. Gardner, Messrs W. G. Cocking, J. M. Patrick, F. L. Lawrence, H. T. Johnston, J. T. Paul, W. D. Sutherland, and L. Sanderson. A letter was received from the Education Department granting a remission of fees for Karitanc nurses who were taking cooking classes. ART APPRECIATION. Approval of an experiment in art appreciation was received from the Education Department. It was explained by the principal (Mr W. G. Aldridge) that the experiment would be carried out to determine the reaction of primary school children to art appreciation. The department had agreed to the extension of the art teachers’ times to enable them to carry out the experiment. JOINT COMMITTEE, The Joint Committee reported _ that it had commissioned a sub-committee, comprised of Dr Gardner and the principal, to report on the book supplies for 1939. It was also recommended that the monthly accounts, totalling £556 9s lOd, £227 10s 2d of which would be claimable from the Education Department, and monthly salaries totalling £1,139 6s 9d be passed for pay- 1 ment. A further recommendation was that, while the board was not bound to observe the provisions of the caretakers and cleaners’ award, the salaries of its present staff be raised as from August I.—The report was adopted. PRINCIPAL’S REPORT. In his report for August the Principal stated that the second term would end on Saturday. The musical groups in the school presented their annual concert on August 13, and matches usually played against Invercargill teams on their way to Christchurch on the last day of the term had been postponed on account of sickness at both Invercargill and Christchurch. Both schools asked that the matches be played on Friday, September 23. , . Reference was made to the conditions governing the award of scholarships tenable at the school and the difficulty experienced in making the. award unless the conditions had been framed to permit unusual freedom of action. This difficulty was being experienced in connection with the Burt trad© scholarships, as it became -increasingly difficult to make the selections on account of the growing numbers. No system of examinations early in the year could be devised to give satisfactory results, and attempts to discriminate in favour of boys more deserving of help than others was less successful Another method, based upon frank discussion with the best dozen boys, had also failed, and the board was recommended to revise the conditions of the award under which the scholarships would he open for competition between boys who had completed one or more years in a trades course at the Technical High School. . The report was adopted.