HIGH SCHOOLS.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2648, 17 May 1923, Page 5

HIGH SCHOOLS.

VARIOUS EXISTING SYSTEMS DISCUSSED. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Last Night. The presidential address delivered this morning at the annual confer-i once of the Secondary Schools Assistants’ Association, by Mr E. Caradus, dealt almost solely -with junior High Schools. In summarising the position as a result of information he had obtained from America, Canada and * Britain, he stated: “In all countries, except Canada the primary course terminates at from twelve to 13 years. The junior High School, as a try-out school, wai3 peculiar to the United States, but also ’was in a. minor degree, to Canada. The recommendation of the North Central Association is that in the smaller towns, the junior High School should not exist aa a separate unit, but that the junior and senior High Schools should form a single unit. The United States favours comprehensive High Schools embracing all curriculums (academic and vocational) Scotland, on the other hand, inclines to separate day schools for vocational purposes. England is the only country which favours the separation of the sexes in Secondary Schools. For efficiency, the system in operation in Scotland and Quebec, with Primary, Intermediate and High Schools in one institution, seems ideal, providing there are suitable alternative courses at the intermediate stage.”