POST-PRIMARY EDUCATION

Evening Star, Issue 24919, 17 July 1943, Page 8

POST-PRIMARY EDUCATION

GOOD PROGRESS WITH INQUIRY TEACHERS ADVISED TO DISREGARD GARBLED REPORT (P.A.) TIMARU, July 16. .The chairman of the Consultative Committee on Post-primary Education, Mr W. Thomas,' of Timaru, to-day issued the following statement: — . "The information in a recently-published newspaper article .relating to the forthcoming report of the committee is inaccurate and misleading. Actually, the committee is making very good progress with its assignment, but, it has not reached finality in reference to any section of the report. Full consideration is being given lo opinions expressed in memoranda forwarded by interested individuals and associations; to resolutions passed by different teachers' conferences; and to relevant subject matter in the British Spens report. Specialists, too, have given evidence, and sub-commit-tees are co-opting the services of outside educationists in compiling syllabuses. The well-balanced committee is unrestricted in its deliberations, which neither the Minister of Education nor the Director of Education has attempted in any way to guide. , " Naturally, the committee demands that it shall be given the opportunity of completing its work and publishing its report before criticism commences. Teachers are advised to, take no notice of a recentlypublished garbled, unofficial statement, but to wait for publication of the official report." , ■