TECHNICAL SCHOOLS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1074, 11 September 1930, Page 7

TECHNICAL SCHOOLS

P)'ess Association p WELLINGTON, Today. The Technical Schools Conference passed the following resolutions at its sitting yesterday: “This conference believes that local post-primary councils should have power to make appointments to staffs and that if any National Appointments Committee is instituted its function should bo to furnish information and recommendations regarding each man on the list of applicants from which the local council should make the final choice.” “That the general adoption of separate intermediate schools of the Kowhai type will not provide courses for pupils equivalent to what is now given in technical high schools, with a resultant educational loss on the technical side of the community. “That the benefits now conferred on pupils of technical high schools are too valuable to be lost. “That the conference is of the opinion that the principle of consolidation is in the best interests of education and will be of assistance to technical education where district high schools have definite technical courses.” “That while this conference recognises the importance of agriculture as a subject it is of the opinion that the curriculum of a post-primary school should be based entirely on the special needs of pupils and the environment of the district.”