EDUCATIONAL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 22 June 1923, Page 5

EDUCATIONAL.

MEETING OF COUNCIL

(BY TEIiBGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.)] WELLINGTON, June 21. The Council of Education continued j its session to-day. Mr. J. Caughley, (Director of Education) presided. A scheme drawn s up by Miss Coa<s ior teaching history, civics and geography was adopted. Members congratulated Miss Ooad on her valuable report. ! On the motion of Mr. Kirk, tie council adopted a. remit that the regulation relating to the payment of travelling allowance to children journeying, to school by buggy be so amended «, to ; allow of a simiLir payment to children journeying to school on horseback in those districts where it is safer fo*! children to ride to school. wAi remif' which J was moTed by -Mr. XS 1* ™d earned unanimously read* ."That the time has arrived wheTthe interests of the non-intellectual t^peof rio^T 1 m ?u, r P^^y schools should receive special consideration, with a view Jo such children receiving greater ESS/ 1" 01? Pr imary ! Ch°°l 8 *n<* more fn+T V trT mg for satisfactory future citizenship; and that additional teachers be appointed to the larcer schools to enable these scholars to worK with a revised syllabus." ,wi Cau# y, -said that t] »s was already embodied m an Act that was in operation m some parts Mr. Wells: It is not'well known. ; would ?™* hy *}<*«* that the remit would do good and advertise the provision. . . A motion that the Minister of the Department and the Senate of the University be asJted to take the necessary steps to bring about the early application of an accrediting system in lieu of matriculation was moved by Miss tf' ,Was carried by ll v ote» to 6 ; Mr. Kirk mentioned that the NewZealand matriculation examination abroad was not recognised as it should be. He said his son had been refused entrance to the Inns of Court, .London on this qualification. He moved a mo^ tion. which was carried unanimously, that the Minister for Education to advised to take suoh steps as will ensure that the matriculation examination of the University of New Zealand, or such examination as may be substituted therefor, be accepted as an entrance examination for the several Inns of Court jn London.