EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17057, 11 June 1926, Page 8

EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS.

STUDYING Mt'TIiCDS ABROAD,

SHOULD MEN BE SENT

(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, last night

So that the educational systems of other countries could be studied, and if desirable applied with beneficial results in Si'.sv Zealand, an annua;! visit be made bv the Director of Education to Europe and America., was favored by Mr. P. .Vlilner. who said at the Council of Education that the Railway and Post and Telegraph Departments had senl men abroad. When a similar suggestion was advanced in respect to echteaiion, however, effort-; at the restriction of finance were made. ■ Mr. .1. R. Kirk said a young man should go, instead of leaving the trip to a nva;t who would retire almost immediately upon his return. [t was pointed out that only once since 1877 had an educational, man been sent from New Zealand to England; that was in 1910. Members desired to have two men sent overseas, one the Director for Education, ano? ibe other a young man who would be found useful in later years.

A resolution asking that the Director should, be accompanied hy at least one other educationalist upon bis to'u-r was passed. A. remit that in the smaller lechnka.l and high selnuls the staffing should be arranged on the basis of one teacher to every 25 prnpiks was adopted. Am applksa'tion by the Wanganui Technical .School Board to have the sole control of lice institution removed from the Wanganui Education Board and placed in control of a board of managers alone, was discussed at some length, the allegation; being made I hat-the present ad ministration was wi wieldly.. The Council decided to 'refer the matter to a .small committer to investigate.