THE EDUCATION CONFERENCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10752, 27 April 1911, Page 4

THE EDUCATION CONFERENCE.

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] (Per Press Association.) Received April 26, at 8.50 p.m. London, April 26. The Education Conference, sitting in camera at the Education Office, in the morning discussed the possibility of the establishment of an Imperial Bureau of Education. It considered the Education systems of Australia, New Zealand, and.other dominions with a view to an interchange of teachers, teaching of Imperial history, etc. During the afternoon sitting at ..the Foreign Office the conference,discussed papers by Mr H. J. Mackinder, M.P.j on Imperial geography, and Professor Egerton on the teaching of Imperial history. Professor Herbertson (Oxford) suggested that every colonial university should have a Chair of Geography. Received April 27, at 10 a.m. London, April 26. Sir George Reid entertained the delegates to the Education Conference at lunch, Mr Runcimnn, President- of the Board of Education, being present.