TECHNICAL EDUCATION

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4258, 18 January 1901, Page 5

TECHNICAL EDUCATION

NEW GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS. Regulations under the Manual and Technical Instruction Act- of last session have been prepared by the Education Department. Under these regulations it is directed that the controfhng authority shall receive from the publicfund a capitation of lid ior every attendance of a pupil over thirteen years of aga at a ’’continuation class,” . i.e. a ckws commencing not earlier than 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and giving instruction iu such of the ordinary public school subjects of general or commer - cial education as are prescribed in i iu; Act. Tho following subjects will be recognised under this head;—All subjects oi the public school syllabus for Standards V. aud VII., as well as English literature, coa’position, and grammar, French',; German, Italian, Latin and Greek, mathematics, bookkeeping, shorthand, typewriting, commercial and actuarial arithmetic, commercial law, political economy, economics of industry, commercial history, industrial history, commercial geography, any natural, physical or chemical science, English, general and constitutional history ; elocution ; geometric drawing, freehand outline of rigid forms from fiat exurnples, and freehand outline urawing from tho “round.”

The grants to be given for special subjects in school classes include Is per head par annum for modelling, et?., in •Standard 11.. syid Cd per head for kindergarten work; 2s per head for modelling, brush, wire and basket work, ere., in Standards 111. and IV. ; 2s 6J per head for modelling, drawing, painting carvitg, etc., in classes not lower than •standard V. ; 2s 6d for each pupil m or above Standard V who shall have receive ed not less than twenty lessons in first-aid and ambulance (boys), first aid and nursing (girls), cottage gardening (bovs 1 and girls), swimming and life saving; ids’per annun for each boy who has undergone thirty weeks of instruction at two hours per week in wood or iron work; 10s per annum for each girl who has received not less than forty hours’ instruction in cookery br in dairy work during the year (if both courses are taken the capitation to be 15s); 5s per annum for each j girl who has had twenty hours’ instruction at laundry work, or forty;hours’ at dressmaking; 2s 6d per annum for each pupil who has had not less than forty hours’ instruction at elementary agriculture, physics or chemistry. The subjects which will be recognised as subjects of manual or technical instruction are model, freehand, geometric and single drawing, painting and modelling, mathematics, mechanics, navigation, architecture, chemistry, electricity, science and numerous crafts. Under the heading of commercial work appear book-keeping, shorthand, , commercial and iiiciiistrial law, the economics of industry, the chemistry of commerce, gypewriting, correspondence and precis, writing, commercial or actuarial arithmetic. commercial history and geography and ’industrial history. All but the crafts and commercial work are recognised as subjects for , technical instruction in college classes. The regulations cover the appointment of managers of associated Classes, and the matter of grauts-in-aid for buildings and material. For buildings for school and special classes established by a Board of Education the whole cost may be granted; for buildings for associated classes controlled by a Board of Education, two-thirds of the cost; gnd for all other classes, half-cost. Grants for material may cover the wjiole Cost in the icase of school classes, Or classes for teachers or instructors, but for other classes they shall not in general exceed bwo-thirdis of the cost. The Minister is empowered by the Act to' establish scholarships for competition among pupils attending any classes established under the Act.