PRINCIPAL’S COMMENT
ART AND CRAFTS COURSE Commenting oh the recent criticism by an Auckland Education Board member of the centralisation of the training- of specialist teachers in art and crafts at the Dunedin Training College, the principal, of the college, Mr E. Partridge, told the Daily Times that the decision to concentrate specialists in Dunedin had been made by the Education Department and there was little he. could say. So far. the department’s decision applied to the 1949 year only. The number of students specialising in art and crafts in their third year was very small, Mr Partridge said, and they had been reduced in the last year or two because of the shortage of teachers in the field. Third-year training in physical education, music and agriculture had been suspended for that reason. In the past, each of the four main colleges had taken their own third-year specialists in art and crafts, but next year it was proposed that the small number of students should undertake the course in Dunedin,
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26847, 11 August 1948, Page 6
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