THE EDUCATION INSTITUTE.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 933, 17 January 1890, Page 2

THE EDUCATION INSTITUTE.

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION-.) Dunedin, January 9. The Education Conference carried a series of resolutions affirming the desirableness of Inspectors being placed under the control of the department, and the desirableness of appointing a Court of Appeal for teachers, and the transference of teachers from one' district to another. At the afternoon sitting of the Educational Institute a report was brought up and adopted, requesting the Education Department and Education Boards to issue. instructions to the Inspectors, defining thfe" syllabus and prescribing methods of examination; to make verbal alterations in regulation 6, so as to place all schools On the same footing, and referring to the harmful results arising from the percentages of individual schools. The report of the Committee on technical education was adopted.'. It merely recognised the value of technical education and oommended the efforts already made. At the evening sitting of the Educational Institute a discussion took place on a revision of the constitution of the Council. It was proposed to create a defence fund to secure legal assistance for teachers, and to appoint a committee to revise the constitution. The debate was adjourned. The Educational Conference has adopted a modified drawing syllabus. January 10. At the Education Institute it was resolved that the Council inquire into the legality or otherwise of transferring sums of money from the maintenance fund to the buildingfund, and call the attention of the Minister to where it haa been done, and record a protest against the practice. A Vigilance Committee was appointed. A slight discussion took plaee on the circular of the Wabganui Board, that teachers neglecting to comply with the instructions to proceed to another school will run the risk of summary dismissal, but the matter was allowed to drop. It was resolved to urge the Government to make such concessions in railway: fares as will enable all schools of the Middle Island on the railway lines to visit the Exhibition. A Committee was appointed to revise the constitution and suggest means of bringing the various branches into harmony with the legulations of the Central Institute. , The next meeting was fixed at Auckland on the 6th January. 1891. Mr E. M. C. Harrison was appointed President, Mr Worthington Secretary, and Mr G. S. Scott, Treasurer!, The meeting then concluded. The delegates are being entertained at dinner to-night by the Otago Institute. ■ The delegates to the Educational Institute were entertained at dinner to-night.by the Otago Institute, about 50 sitting down, Mr O. Wilson (president) in the chair. Mr T. W. Hislop proposed the hew Zealand Institute, which ho thought had a very important part to play in the administration of education in the Colony. Mr Worthington, of Auckland, replied. Sir R. Stoll* replied to the toast of higher education, regretting that their representatives, as ehown by their votes, did not appreciate it more highly. He believed the time was coming when a child .would not be called upon to compete with an adult worker, and then the period of going to school would be. of much greater length than at present. The banquet is still proceeding.