NEW EDUCATION FELLOWSHIP CONFERENCE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23109, 8 February 1937, Page 5

NEW EDUCATION FELLOWSHIP CONFERENCE

-■ VISIT BY DR E. G. MALHERBE Dr E. G. Malherbe, director of the National Bureau of Educational and Social Research, will arrive in New Zealand early in June, to take part in the New Education Fellowship Conference. Dr Malherbe was responsible for the organisation of the huge conference, in South Africa in 1934. He is vitally interested in educational finance and intends shortly to make an intensive study of various systems throughout the world. . < . . Dr Malherbe gained his bachelor of arts and master of arts in philosophy at the Stellenbosch University. Later he took his master of arts and doctorate of philosophy in the Columbia University at New York. He won the Union Government Scholarship for two years, which gave him the opportunity of studying the educational systems of The Hague, Amsterdam, Germany, and various other places. For three years in succession he was selected H. B. Webb Research Scholar for overseas research in administration. During the year 1923-24, Dr Malherbe was Fellow of Teachers’ College. Columbia University, and in that year won the Chalmers Memorial Prize for Essay in Educational Administration. In 1931 he was invited as a representative to the Centenary meeting of the British Assembly at London. In 1933 he was selected as Carnegie visitor to study educational finance in the United States and Canada. In 1936 he was a member of the Interdepartmental Committee on Native Education. In that year also he was appointed chairman of the Interdepartmental Committee on Teachers’ Salaries. Dr Malherbe is national president of the New Educational Fellowship in South Africa, and is the author of various works on educational subjects.