CANADIAN EDUCATION

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21553, 26 July 1933, Page 11

CANADIAN EDUCATION

EXPLANATION OF SYSTEM A brief address on the educational system of Canada was given by Mr. G. M. Croft, Canadian Trade Commissioner, at a general meeting of the Auckland branch of the New Zeal.int Educational Institute yesterday afternoon. /Air. G- Hamilton presided over a large attendance. "Public education in Canada is controlled by the various provincial goveminents," said Mr. Croft. ' to the latest figures there arci dO t SUU provincial public day schools in banana, attended by 2,137,000 pupils, and BJO private schools with an attendance o 9f>,000. There are also 502 technical schools and training colleges." Special schools, controlled by the Government of CarVada, had been established for the education of the Indians. Ihese ' n - s j- 1 " tutiota numbered 352, of which 80 were residential. About 16,000 Indians attended. In the provinco of Quebec there were two educational systems, controlled respectively by Protestant and I'onun Catholic committees, por cent of the pnpils attended private schools, as against 2 per cent in other provinces. . ~ "In'the English-speaking provinces, said Mr. Croft, "the education system is similar to that 111 Now Zealand. There are eight primary grades and four secondary grades. Tho junior high schools are as yet only in the experimental stage." About half tho pupils attending Canadian schools received a secondary education, while about onefifth matriculated to tho universities.