SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS

Southland Times, Issue 23816, 13 May 1939, Page 20

SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS

REQUEST MADE TO MINISTER (United Press Association) WELLINGTON, May 12. A request is to be made to the Minister of Education (the Hon. P. Fraser) by the New Zealand Secondary Schools’ Association to give an early indication whether the Education Bill is to be proceeded with during the next session of Parliament. In moving to this effect at the annual conference of the Association, Doctor W. M. Smith (Palmerston North) said he was not suggesting either that the Bill was or was not to be proceeded with. It was a very proper request to make in the circumstances. The association had had some replies from the Minister stating that he could not give a decision cn the matters raised in view of the fact that there was a Bill in the offing. The proposal that entrance to the university should be given to pupils who have first passed the school certificate examination to be conducted by the Education Department with the machinery modified to allow of the use of school records in doubtful cases and in case of illness—and, second, have completed at least one post certificate year’s work to the satisfaction of the Department —was endorsed by the annual conference of the New Zealand Secondary Schools’ Association. This decision followed discussion of the report on accrediting recently issued by the New Zealand Council for Educational Research, recommending a complete system of accrediting from secodary schools to the university.