SECONDARY SCHOOLS REGULATIONS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLVII, Issue 13181, 20 June 1917, Page 6

SECONDARY SCHOOLS REGULATIONS.

(Pbb PRsaa Association.) Wellington, June 10. Amended) regulation® Have 'been, approved! regarding secondary school certificates. The Minister of Education already lias made important alterations ■in the regulations governing the grant of free places iiv secondary schools with theresul t of making it rather more difficult to win a froe place. These secondary school certificates are grantedl pupils.-of secondary schools as proof that a certain amount of work has been done, and ■they are of certain definite recognised value as certificates. In the new regulations the important alteration) is that a stated amount of work in English is prescribed,;arid pupils are required' to take up mathematics and science to -win intermediate and lower leaving certificates. Previously , the higher leaving certificate, which entitled, the holder- to'free University cducatioiijjiasl not -been-granted except to pupils taking the full'secondary course of, say, five subjects. It now will be possible for a pupil to gain a higher leaving, certificate by taking only three, 'subjects, one of <fjiem 'being English, provided; some special attention has been given to those subjects: .'Oiic effect of this change will be that scholarswill- be able to begin specialisation at a secondary school or to take something in the nature of a vocational course.