HE ALSO CRITICISES THE MATRICULATION
(Special to the “ Star.”) AUCKLAND, December 19. Mr 11. D. J. Mahon has joined the ranks of headmasters to level criticism at the matriculation examination. Speaking at the Auckland Grammar School prize-giving, he said that of 160 pupils who passed the matriculation only 34 went to the university, while 65 returned to school to take at least one year’s post-matriculation work. “This leaves 61 who regarded the matriculation examination as a species of leaving certificate, but who had no intention of attending the university. I have long felt thal the matriculation course is not most suitable for this latter class of pupils, and until a different type of leaving certificate is instituted for those who are not proceeding to the university it will be difficult tc organise in our fifth forms satisfactory courses of a pre-vocational character with a commercial or scientific bias, according to the careers the pupils intend to take up.”
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18641, 19 December 1928, Page 9
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