EDUCATION IN N.Z.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12252, 6 April 1935, Page 5

EDUCATION IN N.Z.

RESEARCH WORK ABROAD

DIRECTOR TO VISIT BRITAIN

AND AMERICA

O'ross A ssor-m r ?fiu WELLINGTON, April 5

The Minister, of Education, the Hon S. G. Smith, announced to-day that Cabinet haU approved op the Director of Education, Mr N. 1Lamhourno, visiting Great Britain and America for the purpose of studying education and educational administration in those countries. Mr Lambourne will leave in July next.

The Minister stated that only one director had visited England, and that was 28 years ago. In the interval remarkable developments had taken place in education in the older countries, particularly in regard to the re-organidation of the school system, pcst-primary education, vocational girdance, and rural educa lion, and the use of the radio and cinema in education. The publication in 1926 of the Endow report on ‘‘The Education of the Adolescent’' marked an epoch in educational progress in England. The recommendations made in that report had been very largely adopted by various local authorities, and it i® Mr Lambourne’s intention to gather as much information as possible regarding .the changes that have taken place. For some time, continued the Minister, it has been the practice in other parti?, of the Empire for educationalists to be sent abroad at frequent intervals to gain first-hand knowledge of the advances that have been made in the Mother Country and in America. Before the Council of Education was abolished, it had repeatedly urged that the Director should be sent abroad, and last year the subject was one of the matters discussed by a deputation of teachers that waited on the Minister., There were, maid th c Minister, many matters of importance to which the Director would have an opportunity of devoting - < attention. XIo (the speaker) had every reason for believing that not only would the visit be valuable and instructive to Mr Lambourne personally, but that it would also possess great jiossibilities so far as the future progress of the New Zealand Educational system was concerned,