SENIOR FREE PLACES
DANGER OF NEW SYSTEM TECHNICAL SCHOOL PUPIL3L AUCKLAND, July 28. ' A report on tho new system under which senior free places will bo granted to pupils in technical schools was sub* mitted by the principal of the Otahuhu Junior High School, Mr F. W. Martin, to a meeting of the school committee on Tuesday evening. Mr Martin stated that pupils in Form IV. would be required to sit examinations for free places. Tho Education Department had announced its intention to set a written examination. In the past it had been the practice tc grant senior free places on the recommendations being subject to the approval of the department’s inspectors. “Tho proposal that the department should set tost papers has been received with considerable dismay by technical high schools, especially as there ar© In those schools many pupils of a nunacademic type, who are unlikely to do themselves justice at a written examination,” stated the report. Mr Martin said experience had proved that many of these pupils were among tho most capable in the schools where practical things were concerned There was a danger that their right to receive fro® education would depend chiefly un their ability to express themselves on paper. In receiving the report, the committee decided to consider what action it would take.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 177, 29 July 1932, Page 7
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