EDUCATION CONFERENCE.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 276, 27 May 1907, Page 2

EDUCATION CONFERENCE.

[BY JtLECTfiJC TBLKQBAPH— -COPYBIGHT.] [PBB PRESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received May 27th, 8.66 a.m.) London, May 26. Among those attending the Education Conference were—Mr Hogben, ■ Inspector-General for New Zealand; 1 Professor Brown and Mr F. Tate, Director of Education in Victoria. ' The latter, speaking on behalf of the AustraliariVlelegates, said, "The Colonial representatives were looking for--1 ward to meeting the leaders from the Educational Departments and representatives from the learned societies. The Conference would make the man in the street realise that the Empire was solving the problem of linking all grades of educational activity into a worthy organisation. The national taxpayer should realise his share of the work, since education was no longer a private, but a national affair." He described the progress of the educational systems m Australia. The Conference appointed a committee of school inspectors to. draft a scheme to facilitate the interchange of teachers and mutual recognition of certificates. ' Professor Gurney, of Sydney, said that a great Btumbling block was the unequal value of certificates in different parts of the Empire. British speakers strongly emphasised the prime necessity of a central bureau in London, supported by the colonies under British charge, for the task of negotiating the interchange, and recognising certificates. imm rs'" m ~