EDUCATION REFORMS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18205, 28 September 1933, Page 8

EDUCATION REFORMS

COMMITTEES’ OPINIONS NATIONAL COUNCIL SCHEME (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. At the Dominion conference of New Zealand school committees to-day a Wellington motion advocating the removal of education from political control by the appointment of a national council of education, met with general approval, and was carried unanimously. The mover, Mr. Ingrain, suggested that the council should consist of seven members, one representing the Government, one the teaching profession, two local education authorities, one primary school committees, one commercial interests, and one trades and labor councils. The. council should hold office for five years, and retirement be by rotation to ensure continuity of policy. He further suggested that under the council should oe district councils consisting of representatives of municipal councils, employers, and employees’ associations, school committees, teaching profession, agricultural organisations, and additional members to be elected to represent the general public on the same basis as the councils and hospital boards, tho district councils to have control of education in the respective areas under the national council. Tho conference carried a remit of South Canterbury advocating a purging of the roll and the elimination of unsatisfactory teachers, and another recommending grading in broad groups, instead of the present numerical order. A large number of recommendations for submission to the department were also carried.