POST-PRIMARY EDUCATION
VOLUNTARY OB COMPULSORY? EXTENSION OF TECHNICAL TRAINING, The extension of technical education is one of the important matters referred to by the Minister for Education (the. iton. J. A. Honan) in his annual report. “Of about fifteen thousand pupils returned as having left public schools last year,” states the report, “over 5000 proceeded to secondary education at district high schools, secondary schools, and technical high schools, while over two thousand were admitted to technical classes, many of the laitten becoming at the same time wage-earners. These figure* must be regarded as only approximately correct hut it is probably safe to assume that about half of the pupils who left the public schools last year did not continue their education. Of this number, about 76 per cent' reached the ago of fourteen without having passed Standard VI., end hence left the public school without a certificate qualifying them for further free education. It is not unlikely that among this number there are many who would, if facilities for appropriate further education were placed within their roach, eventually fit themselves to enter the ranks of the industrial workers of the Dominion. The recent extension of the regulations governing free places providing for free education at classes related to industrial occupations (including agriculture and domestic occupations) of pupils leaving the public school without the recognised qualification for further free education Will enable the technical schools to move in the direction indicated. These provide for the free education of recommended pupils over fourteen years of age who have left the public schools not more than six months previously without obtaining a Standard VI. certificate qualifying for further free education. Pupils thus 'admitted must take subjects bearing upon a trade or industry, including agricultural and domestic occupations, but not including commercial subjects. I
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9758, 6 September 1917, Page 7
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