PROGRESS RECORD.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2172, 4 September 1920, Page 3

PROGRESS RECORD.

EDUCATION IMPROVEMENTS

The changes and improvements recently effected tn the education system of the Dominion are thus summarised in the Education report: —

Further increased salaries for primary school and Native school teachers, and provision for additions to -alarv according to the tea-

chers' grading. Further increased salaries and allowances for pupil-teachers and probationers.

Furl her increased allowances for training-college si admits. .Further increased grants for incidental expenses of school committees.

Increased salaries for thus tails of t raining colleges.

Extension nl' ilk- provision Cor practising schools in connection with (millini;' colleges. Provision .Cor increases in I lie staffs of Inrge primary schools. Uevision oh flic sylhilnis of instruction in public schools. Amendments in (lie regulations for (he grading of teachers. The nppointiuent of a chief in,specter of primary schools. The appointment of (wo women supervisors for the education of girls and infants. Further increases in (he staff and work of the medical inspection of school children; the appointment of a chief school dental officer and (he inauguration of a scheme tor dental treatment of school children. Wide extension in I lie work of providing public school buildings. Amendment in the provision of grants to education boards for the purposes of administration. increased capitation allowances for classes for manual last met ion. Provision for an annual grant and for increased capitation allowances for technical high schools. Provision for annual grants towards the. maintenance of technical school buildings. Amendments in the regulations prescribing subjects of instruction for technical and continuation classes and the capitation rales payable thereon. “ Amended regulations for the compulsory attendance of pupils at continuation classes.

Provision for animal grants and increased capitation allowances for secondary schools.

Provision for the payment of certain minimum and average salaries to secondary school t cachet's. Improvements and extension in the work of the Special Schools Branch.

Increased animal statutory grants to the University of New Zealand and the alliliated colleges. -