Education Conference.
(PHB PBBSS ASSOCIATION.)
Wblungton, July 21. lnis morning the conference resolved that standard of exemption be Standard V instead of IV, and that the school age be raised from 18 to 14. »»i. ™ WBtUNGir ON, July 22. At the Education Conference resolutions were passed that cookery be included in the syllabus; that Boards be enabled to pay fees to independent bodies in manual and technical inctru* tion ; that the attention of the Minister be called to inequalities in two different modes by which teachers obtain D certi. ficates ; that drill be obligatory in all schools with two or more teachers, one a male; that examination higher than Sixth Standard be required in selecting pupil teachers; that home lessons be reduced to lowest minimum and truancy more severely dealt with.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXLVI, Issue 4286, 22 July 1899, Page 2
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