EDUCATION REFORMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2888, 7 March 1916, Page 3

EDUCATION REFORMS.

CHANGKS IN SYSTK.M OK INSPECTION. In pursuance-of the. statement made by the Hon. -J. A. Hanan, Minister of Education, that 'ho -purposed introducing further reforms in the I.ducation Department, the Director of Education is now arranging for the. district inspectors to take, over for the current year the whole inspection of the District High Schools (secondary departments included), and they will also bo expected to act in conjunction ■with the present, secondary school inspector in (he case of the greater number of the private secondary schools, which, are almost exclusively of a combined primary and secondary character, The senior Inspector in each case is also being instructed lo arrange for the i.nspeeiiou of industrial schools. public and private, other than the special school at Te Ornngsi and the institutions for the blind, deaf, and mentally defective children. Ai-rangemeiits are also being made in the case of Auckland for th" district.- inspectors to take over the inspection, year by year. of one or two groups of Native schools. some -'.'0 | r.chool:-, iv all.