EDUCATION CONFERENCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13451, 30 May 1907, Page 5

EDUCATION CONFERENCE.

A PERMANENT BUREAU.

SUGGESTED IMPERIAL

COUNCIL.

By Telegraph..—Press Association.— Copyright. jj London, May 28. ! Professor M. E. Sadler, Professorj, of History and Administration of , Education at Manchester Univer-j, sity, suggests in the Morning Post the forming of an Imperial Bureau of Education at an annual cost oil £10,000. The bureau should have a comprehensive technical library and; publish a carefully edited year-book. He proposes that- the staff of the. bureau should include a representative of each of the colonies, the salary to be paid by the colony. It should constitute a department of the secretariate resolved upon at the i Imperial Conference when this sec-! retariate shall have become independent of the Colonial Office. (Received May 30. 12.30 a.m.) London, May 29. Mr. Hogben (New Zealand) has arranged with the Conference to exhibit photographs of New Zealand school life. . - The Conference discussed yesterday the possibility of closer uniformity in curricula;, nomenclature, and methods, arid in presenting official educational statistics.

Lord Elgin presided at the after-1 noon sitting, which was held in 1 public. He advocated a co-ordinate system of education from the elementary schools to the university, j

Mr. Hogben described the secon-j dary schools system in New Zealand.j Mr. Carter, of Sydney, urged the formation of an Imperial Council of Education 'to consider all the suggested schemes. Such a council j would prove a real help to the colonies and every part of the Empire, since all could apply for information.

The technical section discussed technical education in the colonies.