EMPIRE EDUCATION.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16464, 17 June 1919, Page 3

EMPIRE EDUCATION.

GREAT SCHEMES FORECASTED

By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.

LONDON, June 11

General Wilson, presiding at the Imperial Education Conference, held at Australia House, said the leading Dominion representatives were taking part in the Army education schemes. It was resolved, on the formation of the Imperial Education Bureau, to bring the overseas universities into close touch with university happenings in the Mother Country.

The Hon. H. A. L. Fisher, Education Minister, emphasised that the present was an unrivalled opportunity. There had been three million men educated under the army scheme, which was not created by the Government, but arose spontaneously from the men, who felt that they would otherwise be wasting time. . Tire Australians and men from the other Dominions felt this particularly. Schemes whereby men from the Dominions visited British factories, farms and universities had been a great success, and had shown the full value of co-operation, which must not be allowed to fizzle out after the war. Equality of eduiational opportunities throughout the Empire must bo established, securing the greatest interchange of students and teachers between the Dominions and the Motherland.