TECHNICAL SCHOOLS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 24 August 1928, Page 7

TECHNICAL SCHOOLS

BUSINESS OF CONFERENCE

ATTENDANCE AT EVENING

CLASSES

• (By Telegraph —Press Association.; WELLINGTON, August 23. The Technical Education Association Cionfcren.ee continued to-day. Among the remits passed were resolutions urging the Minisiter to piWide better faoMitie® for advanced technological instruotion; affirming the desirability of maintaining good' continuation classes in’ evening schools; that the Department of Scientific Research, should consider the establishment of u> teehnologic'al museum; affirming the desirability of teaching dietccties and home science in post-primary schools, as well as practical cookery. Among the subjects discussed was a memorandum from the Minister of education referring) to the relative decay of evening dlasses, especially in domestic work, whereas in ten years the attendance had generally increased pyer LUO per cent., the members in evening classes showed no appreciable increase at all. The opinion, was advanced that the reason was that more children were attending day classes and did not need to attend the evening lessons, also that the evening classes should take more advanced courses.

Jit was decided to ask the Minister to furnish further information' a® to where decay had occurred. The Minister also suggested that the conference might consider a revision of fees for evening and part-time classes in the direction of increasing them. The conference took the opposite view and carried a motion in favour of the abolition of fees.