STIFFER EXAMS

Grey River Argus, 15 March 1932, Page 5

STIFFER EXAMS

N.Z. Education Policy ACCREDITING CUT DOWN. (Per Press Association). WELLINGTON, Alarch 14. The Minister of Education (Air Alasters) states that in order to test the operation of the accrediting system, all candidates for senior free places will be required to sit, this year at an examination for intermediate certificates. This did not mean that the accrediting system would be entirely abandoned.

The public service entrance examination is now being abandoned, an examination of the standard required for university entrance being substituted for entrance to the public service, but with a wider range of subjects. 'Successful candidates would be arranged in order of merit, and the pass certificate would be called a school certificate

The lower leaving certificate had proved of little service, and was being abandoned.

•Subjects for the school certificate examination would be so chosen anil the prescriptions so arranged that the examination might be taken by technical school pupils ns well as secondary.