SCHOOL-LEAVING AGE
Agitation in England Public opinion in Britain is undergoing a change in favour of a higher school-leaving age, delegates to several recent educational conferences have been told. In general the present age at which children leave school is fourteen. Any extension of this age would alleviate the unemployment problem and reduce wrong-doing, it is urged. The National Association of Head Teachers meeting at Buxton, Derhv shire, passed by an overwhelming majority a resolution in favour of raising the leaving age; the president of the Technical Teachers’ Association which met at Middlesbrough urged the same reform with approval of the delegates; and at the Commercial Teachers’ Conference which mot here, Mr. J. W. Catlow, president-elect of the Associa. tion Committees, eritieisod th,, uneiil ployed instruction centres proposed hv the Government as an educational effort. They would keep the boys off the street, he said, but that would bo all they would accomplish, while raising of the school-leaving age would make them unnecessary.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 210, 18 August 1934, Page 3
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163SCHOOL-LEAVING AGE Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 210, 18 August 1934, Page 3
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