Training Colleges.

Thames Star, Volume LXV, Issue 19254, 8 November 1934, Page 3

Training Colleges.

181 NEW STUDENTSLESS THAN EXPECTED. (Special to Star). AUCKLAND, Nov. 8. A total of 181 'applications have been received for.admission next year as students of the. Auckland Training College. At yesterday's meeting of the Auckland Education Board it was reported that 49 males and 109 females had applied for admission as division A students, and that 10' males and seven females had applied for admission . under • division C. Three males and one female had applied for. admission, under both classes. .•••■•••'! i

The chairman,, Mi> ;T. U. Wells, said that the number of applicants was not as many as the board might have expected. ' The applications, however, were considerably in excess of the number of vacancies, but tho position was not : as .bad as anticipated. . It was intended that 125 division A and eight division.. C students should be admitted to the college. H Mr. Wells: It is a pity the.authorities did not announce the reopening of the Training College in time to allow all intending students to enter for the entrance examination. The acting-senior inspector, Mr, M. Priestley, mentioned that no boys from the Auckland Grammar School had entered for the examination. In reply, the chairman said that a large number of boys from tho Grammar School had been placed in commercial positions. Mr. S. B. Sims said that it did not seem fair to put students who passed the entrance examination on the same footing, as who did not.