EDUCATION PROBLEMS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18066, 18 April 1933, Page 4

EDUCATION PROBLEMS

RESEARCH IN N.Z. NEGOTIATIONS UNDER WAY If negotiations now in progress are successful, educational research, hitherto almost unknown in New Zealand, will be established hero on a sound footing, as it has been in Australia, with funds provided by the Carnegie Corporation of Now York. rp he corporation is promoting educational research in the British Dominions, which have little money for smell a purpose, while their needs are greater than the average owing to comparative isolation from tho older countries. The latest development is the result of recent action hv leading educationists in New Zealand who got into direct touch with the corporation in New York and asked that it re-

view the offer to establish an educational research foundation, made by Dt. L. D. Coffman when he visited tho Dominion in 19111 on behalf of the corporation. The Carnegie trustees readily assented and nominated a committee of three to investigate the position. The three nominees are Professor T. A. Hunter, of Victoria College, VicoChancellor of tho University of New Zealand; Mr. Frank Milner, headmaster of the Waitaki Boys’ High School; and Air. D. M. Rae, principal of the Auckland Training College. Tho committee was asked in particular to ascertain what educational problems in New Zealand specially required investigation, whether tho foundation would be assured of support from all educational agencies and from all parts of the Dominion, whether teachers would be readily released for approved research work and allowed reasonable facilities such as the right of entering schools, and whether there was a prospect of unanamity regarding the constitution of the research council. A grant was sent t'o cover the expenses of the investigation.