EDUCATION CONFERENCE

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13499, 28 May 1907, Page 5

EDUCATION CONFERENCE

IMPERIAL WORKING ORGANISATION,

INTERCHANGE OF CERTIFICATES. By Telegraph.— Association.—Copyright i London, May 26. J Among those attending the Education Conference are Mr. Hogben; (Secretary for Education and Inspec-tor-General of Schools, New ; Zea- j land), Professor Buown, and Mr. F. Tate (Director of Education, .Victoria). /■ .'•' ' -.'."' ;•— j

Mr. Tate, speaking on behalf of the Australian delegates, said the colonial representatives were looking forward to meeting the leaders >of the Home Educational Departments, and representatives of the learned societies. The Conference would make the man in the street realise that the Empire was solving the problem of linking all grades of educational activity into a working organisation. The national taxpayer should realise his share of the work, since education was no longer a private, but a national affair. He described the progress of the educational systems in Australia.

The Conference appointed a committee of school inspectors to draft a scheme to facilitate the interchange of teachers, and the mutual precognition of certificates.

Professor Gurney (Sydney) said the great stumbling block to the interchange of certificates was the unequal! value of certificates in different parts of the Empire.

The Home delegates spoke strongly on the subject, and said the prime l necessity was a central bureau in London, supported by the colonies and the Home Government, to have charge of the task of negotiating the interchange and the recognising of I certificates.