EDUCATION REGULATIONS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 8699, 19 December 1899, Page 3

EDUCATION REGULATIONS.

(Per Press Association.) Wellington, This day. The new regulations which were drawn up by the Education Department after the conference of school authorities last winter have been further revised and amended in accordance with the suggestion from the educational bodies and inspectors, and will come into force on January Ist. The principal teacher, subject to certain conditions, will now have full discretion to arrange his pupils in the different classes for- different subjects, and the schools are to be visited at least twice a year by the inspectors. A pupil shall be held to belong to the standard class in which he is placed for English' pass subjects. In order to avoid undue complexity in the classification, head teaohers are enjoined, due regard being paid to the needs of individual pupils, to keep the classes in the several subjects as nearly as possible the same for each standard. Iv order to satisfy himself of tho general efficiency of inßtruotion given in the schools, the inspector shall examine a due proportion of pupils in eaoh class in such subjects as he Bhall choose. Ha may include in the numbor so examined any pupjl concerning whom the teacher desires his judgment. The inspector may, if he see fit, examine the selected pupils of one olass in some subjects, and those of another class in other subjects, and may examine all the pupils of any sobool or of any' class to asoertain their individual progress, and he- may at his disoretion direct that the result of such examination shall be substituted for the results shown on the oUsb lists presented by the head teacher in general. A pupil shall be expected to pasß through one class in eaoh subject in a year. The " standard of exemption " under Section 3 of the School Attendance Act, 1894, shall be the fifth standard. The regulations are very minutely drawn and occupy thirty pages of the Gazette.