PROMINENT EDUCATIONIST

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 33, 9 February 1937, Page 2

PROMINENT EDUCATIONIST

1 TO VISIT NEW ZEALAND DR. E. G. HALHERBE It has recently been announced that Dr. E. G. Malherbe, Director of the National Bureau of Educational and Social Research, will arrive in New Zealand early in June, to taKe part in the New Education Fellowship Conference. Dr. Malherbe was responsible for the organsation of the huge conrerence in South Africa in 1934. He ?s vitally interested in educational finance and intends shortly to ma.-ce intensive study of various systems throughout the world. Born in Orange Free State, of French Huguenot parentage, Dr. Malherbe is the son of the Reverend E. G. Malherbe, of Villiersdorp, Cape Province. He gained his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in Philosophy at the Stellenbosch University. Later he took his Master of Arts and Doctorate of Philosophy in the Columbia University at New York. He won the Union Government Scholarship for two years, which gave him the opportunity of studying the educational systems of The Hague, Amsterdam, Germany and various other places. For three years in succession he was selected H. B. Webb research scholar for overseas research in administration. During the- year 1923-24, Dr. Malherbe was fellow of Teachers’ College. Columbia University and in that year won the Chalmers Memorial Prize for essay in educational administration. In 1931 he was invited as a representative to the centenary meeting of the British Assembly at London. In 1933 he was selected as Carneigie visitor to study educational finance in the United States and Canada. In 193 c he was a member of the inter-depart-mental committee on native education. In that year also he was appointed chairman of the inter-depart-mental committee on teachers’ salaries.

Among other important positions held by Dr. Malherbe are teacher at Capetown Training College, lecturer in educational psychology at the University of Stellenbosch, psychologist for Foxwood School, New York, senior lecturer in education at the University of Capetown for five years, chief investogator for the education section of the Carnegie Poor White Commission of Research, 1928-32. He was also a member of the committee

which standardised an individual intelligence scale in Afrikaans, and is national president of the New Education Fellowship in South Africa.

Dr. Malherbe is the author of “Education in South Africa, 1652-1922,’’ “Education and the Poor White,” “Carnegie Commission’s Report on the Poor White,” “The New Education in a Changing Empire,” ‘Handbook on Education and Social Work,” “Educational Adaptations in a Changing Society,” and numerous important articles in leading reference books.