SECONDARY EDUCATION.
NEW ZEALAND LEADS THE WAY. STATEMENT BY HON. G. J. PARR. (Per United Press Association.) GISBORNE December 10. At a civic reception this morning the Hon. O. J. Parr, Minister of Education, mado an important statement in regard to secondary education. The Minister said that Now Zealand was ahead of any country in tho Empire in tho provision of postprimary education. The high schools had become the people’s schools. Over 20,000 children were in those secondary schools. It was necessary to take stock and see how we stood. Only one in 12 pupils went on to the university and the professions. The university examination was not the right objective. It gave a bias the, wrong way. There was serious overlapping between the secondary and technical schools. It would do good to review the position, and ho had asked Mr Frank Tate (Director of Education in Victoria, and the strongest educationist in Australia), who intends visiting Now Zealand in February, to give the Government a report on the whole subject."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19351, 11 December 1924, Page 10
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