EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE.
ANNUAL CONFERENCE.' Wellington, Jan.' 5. '■ At the annual conference'oil the New Zealand educational • institute, Miss Butler, Messrs. - Wells,’ Ti}>h<S Mclness, Munro and Lamb .. were appointed to consider some-' qibdification of, or substitution ’ for,. -the •system of proficiency certificates as a test of promotion to , secdndary education, the co-ordination of ' the curricula in primary and secondary schools and the continued education of country children. Dr.-Eleanor Baker, Miss Chapman, . Professor Hight and Messrs. Purchase, ■ Penlington and Aschman were appointed to report on the retardation and backwardness in primary schools.. One delegate said that not. 50 per, cent, of the children who passed the first standard reached the sixth standard. - ■
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume X, Issue 19, 6 January 1920, Page 7
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