EDUCATION REFORMS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16491, 5 March 1914, Page 8

EDUCATION REFORMS.

[Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND, March 4. At this morning’s meeting of the Board of Education, Mr E. C. Purdie, Chief Inspector, submitted proposals which he has framed with regard to reforms that are admittedly desirable in the organisation of tho inspectorate. Mr Purdie convinced the Board that efficiency would be increased by reorganisatipn of the staff of inspectors, and it was clear that hesitation to make any change would be caused largely by'financial considerations. Ultimately a committee of tho whole Board, with the Chief Inspector, was set up to consider the proposal. Briefly, the effect of Mr Purdie’s motions regarding the inspectorate was the division cf the education district into three areas, northern, metropolitan and southern, each in. charge of a senior .inspector, .with other inspectors controlling: sub-areas of a specified number of schools under the senior inspector. The Chief Inspector would direct and supervise the work of education throughout the whole education district, and it was suggested that sufficient extra inspectors should be appointed forthwith to enable theschemo to be carried out on tbe lines indicated. _