SENIOR FREE PLACES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 269, 13 October 1932, Page 6

SENIOR FREE PLACES.

QUALIFICATION TEST. DEPARTMENTAL DECISION. A prophetic utterance was made bv Mr L. J. Wild. MA. B-Se.. priitci- : °* ' LCe High . the monthly meeting of tie | Basra of Managers of the school, -ss: uigfit, tnat as the result of the new : regulations issued bv the Minister of ■ -Education <.Hon. R. Masters). the ? eroea °5 Papus who would gain irt 6 '? p.sces this year would not be so ss m 'tii© past. I , with the decision or Minister of Education.'’ said Mr ! t v SC ware? of his remarks to -ne board “ail pupils now comoletirt the second year of their junior free j-iaa? nave been required to enter ? a examination to be conducted oy tae cepartment ss a qualification .est ior senior free oiacea. Fcr mar t senior free places have for the pa,., been awarded cm the recommendation of the headmaster. To meet the conditions of this extern examination, our more liberal courses fmv© or necessity been restricted. Sc late was the Minister's decision mace “ 15 n °t to be expected “tb the percentage of these gauung senior free* traces will 3?.“ ai Sp as in the past, either :r. Dus school oar over the dominion as s Tesu * t will be a reduction 131 of secondary school nurds sad a reduction in staffs. and another economy in education.”' the sneaker concluded.