A NEW MOVE IN EDUCATION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21920, 4 April 1933, Page 8

A NEW MOVE IN EDUCATION

TO TUB EDITOR. Sib, —With reference to your well-in-formed editorial on educational research in New Zealand, may I state as a member of the Provisional Committee of three, nominated bv the Carnegie Corporation of New York, that the committee is throughly seized of the great responsibility vested in it? Its first duty is to assure itself of the willingness of the Minister of Education, the Department of Education, the University, and teachers' organisations to co-operate .in such a project and to provide all facilities in their power to render it a practical success. The full co-operation of the Department of Education and of the University is assured, and it is confidently anticipated_ that Education Week next May, in which the annual meetings of teachers’ organisations are held, will furnish their official endorsement. In the meantime the committee is in communication with the Carnegie Corporation, Dr Keppell (Columbia), Dr Coffman (Wisconsin), Mr Frank Tate (director of the Australian Research Council), Sir Percy Nunn (Professor of Education, London, and head of the Impercial Bureau of Education), and Professor William Boyd (Glasgow University), who is most intimately connected with the activities of the remarkably successful Scotch Research Institute. The committee is also collecting valuable and up-to-date reports on research work in education from all parts of the Empire, America, and Germany. The potentialities of such an endowment as is contemplated by the Carnegie Corporation are so great and beneficial to this country that you may rest assured that the committee will miss no chance of making out an impressive case. The indispensable preliminary must, be the full co-operation of all bodies interested in education and the subordination of local or provincial feeling to the' educational welfare of the nation. — I am, etc., F. Mieneb. Oamaru, April 1.