EDUCATION SYSTEM.
COMMENT BY MR, PARR
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(by TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION GISBORNE, Dec. 10.
At- a civic reception this morning, the Hon. C. J. Parr, Minister for Education, made an important statement- in regard to secondary education. The Minister said that New Zealand was ahead of any country in the Empire in the provision for post-primary education. The high schools hud become the people’s schools, and oyer 20,000 children were. in. these secondary .schools. It was necessary to take stock ;and see how we stood. Only one in twelve pupils went on to the university, and the professors’ university examination was' not the figgt objective! It gave a bias the wrong way. There was serious overlapping between secondary, and technical schools. It would do gooid to review the position. He had. asked Mr. Frank Tate', 'Director;of Education in Victoria,’ and the strongest educationalist in Australia, who is-visit-ing New Zealand in February, to give, the Government a report on the whole subject.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 10 December 1924, Page 11
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