EDUCATIONAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 19 June 1924, Page 9

EDUCATIONAL.

MEETING OF COUNCIL. (BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, June 19. The control of junior high Schools was discussed at the Council of Education to-dav, and on the motion of Mr Howell (Wellington), the following resolution was carrietr: ‘That in the smaller centres junior high schools should be associated with secondary and technical schools, and should be under the control of their boards.” It was also {lecided that junior high schools attached to District High Schools should remain under the control of the Education Boards. A committee was set up to report to the next meeting of the Council on the question of reducing the number of boards in the various districts. TECHNICAL SCHOOL TEACHERS. WELLINGTON, June 19. Differences that are stated to exist between the conditions covering technical and secondary school teachers were placed before the Council of Education to-day. Mr Howeil (Wellington) moved that it is unwise to attempt to co-ordinate schemes for teachers m secondary and technical schools. He also moved: that the regulations’for the classification of teachers in technical schools be amended in the direction of rendering their conditions of service less favourable than those of teachers in secondary schools, especially in regard to.(a) staffing, (b) evening work, (c) salary of head, teacher, and (d) maximum teaching hours-. The subject of the resolution, Mr Howell said, was one that had greatly exercised the staffs of technical schools for some time. They felt they were working under unfair conditions, and that although during a time of serious financial difficulty to the country little was said or done to call attention to the state of things, now that a return was being made to normal conditions it was time the unfair conditions were remedied. Dr. Marsden, Assistant Director of Education, said the fact that technical, teachers did not want their grading placed on the same basis as that of secondary teachers was an indication of the satisfaction of technical teachers with their condition. Mr Caughley, Director of Education, thought that* pupils attending day courses should not he engaging themselves with some of the courses. The discussion is proceeding.