EDUCATIONAL.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2648, 17 May 1923, Page 4

EDUCATIONAL.

TEACHERS’ SUGGESTIONS FOR EVtPRO VEMEN TS. [Per Press Association.] WELLINGTON, Last Night. At the annual conference of dele, gates of the Secondary Schools Assistants’ Association, the following remits were among those carried: — That the lack of honours in the MA. degree should not prejudice a teachers’ chances of being graded A in cases where he took the degree before the inception of the grading scheme. — (Nelson.) That the double degree of 8.A., B. Sc. be sufficient acamedic quali. fleadion to grade A teachers. — (Wei. lington.) That teachers holding a position below his or her grade should receive the highest salary of that lower grade.; — (Christchurch.) That full-time teachers of nanscholastic subjects, such as physical culture and art, be graded separately from teachers of scholastic subjects.— (Epsom.)

That in view of the low salaries offered in New Zealand secondary schools, as compared with those offered in England, and in other British Dominions, of exacting conditions of secondary school work, of the necessity of giving the secondary service a professional status, of the returning prosperity of the Dominion, for all these reasons the Government be urged to restore the salary scale which was in existence before the first salary cut. — (Executive.) That the Association again strongly affirms the principle of accrediting, in lieu of the matriculation examination. —(Wellington and Nelson.) That the Senate of the New Zealand University be asked to amend the Statute with regard to entrance scholarships. That the Education Department and Senate of the University bo requested, with a view to bringing English into line with other subjects, to recommend examiners m English to separate to a greater extent than it done at present, marks awarded to the best and to the worst candidates in the subject.— (Mt. Albert.) That the syllabus of work in LaLs and French for the matriculation examination be made more definite. (Kelson.) That the University Senate he asked to take steps to secure greater uniformity in the standard of papers sot in various subjects for matriculation and junior scholarship examinations and also to secure closer adherence to the prescription of work in these subjects, as set out in the University calendar. — (New Plymouth.) That in view of the fact that many of the candidates for military examina. tiers for first appointments to commissions, and for promotion arc

secondary school teachers, the Defenc 0 Department be requested to hold these examinations at more convenient times, viz., the last week in January and the last week in August. — (New Ply. mouth.)