EDUCATIONAL ADVANCE

Evening Star, Issue 25633, 6 November 1945, Page 6

EDUCATIONAL ADVANCE

NEW WORLD ORGANISATION FULL SUPPORT FROM NEW ZEALAND (N.Z.P.A. Special Correspondent.) (Rec. 10.5 a.m.) LONDON, Noy. 5. New Zealand was warmly in sympathy with the aims of the United Nations educational conference, said Mr A. E. Campbell, director of the New Zealand Council for Educational Research, addressing the conference. The Dominion had well before 1939 committed herself to a bold and avowedly democratic programme of educational advance. She hoped that the new organisation which was to be established would assist her in carrying through that programme. The Dominion had received stimulus and’ practical suggestion (from Britain and the other dominions, the United States and Scandinavian countries, but would like to see the channels of communication widened and deepened. Referring to the great gap that exists between the stated aspirations of the United Nations arid educational conditions as they’actually exist at the present moment, Mr Campbell declared that New Zealand was very conscious of that gap, and the fact that vast numbers of children and young people were being denied the opportunity of growing to full stature. The task of repairing the educational rayages of war and making up the educational arrears of the war years was one of great urgency. While action must be taken by individual countries themselves, the new organisation would provide _ a powerful stimulus to advance and give much practical heln to those countries that desired it New Zealand hoped, therefore, that the new organisation would be a really. strong and effective body. '