EDUCATIONAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume XC, Issue 13299, 30 May 1907, Page 5

EDUCATIONAL.

A PROFESSOR'S SUGGESTION.

Press Association-By Te^h-Copy^ht

Professor Sadkr, Professor of History and Administration of Education at tkUniversity of Manchester, in a totter to the "Morning Post" suggests xhe formation of an Imperial Bureau of Education at, an annual cost of £IO,OOO including a comprehensive technical library and carefully edited Year Book. He proposes that the Bureau should include a representative of each of the colonies, whose salary -should be paid by the colony and fui-mir."-: a department of the Secretariat resoived D upon at the Imperial Conference, directly this organisation became independent of the Colonial Office.

THE CONFERENCE IN LONDON

Received 12.31 a.ai.. May 30th. LONDON, May 29.

Mr Hosben arranged for the Conference to use five exhibit photographs of Xew Zealand school life. The Conference discussed the possibility of closer uniformity in curricula, nomenclature and methods in presenting official educational statistics.

Lord Elgin, in presiding at the public afternoon sitting, advocated a cc-ordinats system of education from the elementary schools to the university.

Mr Hogben described the secondary schools of Xew Zealand.

Mr Carter \ Sydney), urged the formation of an Imperial Council on education to consider all the suggested schemes. Such a\ Council avouM prove of real help to the colonies and every part of the Empire, since all could apply for information.

Tli.- technical section of the Conference discussed technical education in the colonies.