LEAGUE OF THE EMPIRE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20136, 22 December 1928, Page 14

LEAGUE OF THE EMPIRE.

INTERCHANGE OF TEACHERS. advantages of movement. [FROM OTJR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] LONDON. Nov. 13. A statement issued by the League of the Empire shows that during the present year 109 teachers from the English, Scottish and Welsh services have gone overseas and teachers from Canada, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand have taken their places for one year in the Home services. During the Chriatmas holidays another 40 exchanges will be effected. Many new authorities are taking part in the schema. An increasing number of men teachers overseas are applying for exchange. Applications for 1929 exchanges are now being dealt with. The Daily Telegraph expresses the view that any movement which tends to broaden the outlook of men and women ongaged in the work of education is deserving of sympathy. It needs little imagination to perceive the great advantage which all concerned derive from such an interchange. The teachers themselves, by the experiences of travel and contact with fellow-workers in other lands, are put into possession of knowledge that cannot be learned from books. A further development of the same idea is now at* hand in the proposal to arrange for an exchange of French and British students. Lord Derby, a former Ambassador to France, is shortly to entertain a conference on the subject at Crewo House, at which representatives of the French Academy and of the British Government departments • will be present. Spokesmen from the French universities will also take part, as well as others connected with the various Anglo-French societies which exist in both countries.