IMPERIAL CONFERENCE ON EDUCATION

New Zealand Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 6089, 22 December 1906, Page 10

IMPERIAL CONFERENCE ON EDUCATION

NEW ZEALAND TO BE HEPRESENTED. The High Commissioner (Hon. W. P. Reeves) and the Inspector-General of Schools (Mr G. Hogbcn, M.A.) will represent New Zoaiand at a conference to be known as the Federal Conference on Education which is to be held in England next year, commencing on May 2-ith, and closing probably on June Ist. It is expected that all parts of the Empire will ho represented.- The following provisional programme has been prepared :- BUSINESS SUBJECTS. A. Scheme for federation of tho Empire in education. 15. Official Recognition of a common central office for federal education. C. Future Federal Education Conferences. < EDUCATIONAL SUBJECTS. A. . Teachers. (1) Comparison of (a) tho provisions for the supply and the training of elementary teachers, and of (b) tho conditions of their work in the Lbrited Kingdom and other parts of the Empire. (2) Similar comparison in the case of secondary teachers. (3) Practicability of temporary inter, change of teachers and of inspectors between the United Kingdom and other countries of the- Empire. B. The relations between secondary and primary schools in tire various countries of tho Empire. O. Means of establishing a system of mutual recognition of equivalent standards of education throughout the Empire. D. Co-operation in educational publications. (1) Scheme of the League of the Empire for Imperial text books in history. (2) Moans for ensuring correctness in text hooks dealing with geography, or in which local knowledge is required. E. Co-operation in school work. (1) Tho formation of a central exhibition of industrial or otherschool work. (2) The organisation of the exchange of school work and specimens between /departments, museums, and between individual schools on a permanent basis. F. School subjects. (1) The English language; (a) Beading (literature); (b) composition; (c) pronunciation. (2) Geography in its relations to: (a) history; Or) discovery and commerce; (c) the growth of tho Empire, illustrated by lantern slides and other means. (3) Encorrragemont of nature study. G. Education of non-British races. Comparison of ideals, methods and standards in various parts of \tho Empire. OTHER SUBJECTS. , (a) Cadet corps and military training. (h) Educational facilities in sparsely ■populated districts. (c) Educational treatment of Poor Law and Reformatory children. (d) Civic and moral education. (o) Metric system of weights, and measures. ‘ (f) School gardens.