SCHOOL INSPECTORS' CONFERENCE.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12722, 18 February 1910, Page 4

SCHOOL INSPECTORS' CONFERENCE.

[United Press AesociATicN.] Wellington, Fob. 17. ' At the confcrenceof School Inspectors to-das', tli© chairman read a letter from the Minister, requesting an expression of opinion on the elfect on education of the freedom of classification that had been accorded teachers under the present syllabus. In the discussion several speakers ivarnriy approved of the change; and the report of" the Scholarship Committee was read ,expressirig the opinion that the powers at present in the hands of Inspectors, if carefully exercised, are sufficient to ensure proper (classification. The report was approved by the .Conference. A committee was appointed to confer with the- Education Department with refreuco to a resolution passed yesterday suggesting important changes in the classification and. grading of teachers.