TECHNICAL EDUCATION
FAR-REACHING CHANGES FORECAST (P.A.) Auckland, Nov. 7. Because Auckland is fast developing secondary industries, far-reaching changes in technical education would have to be made, stated a report by a select committee on technical education extension in intermediate schools, presented to the Auckland Education Board to-day. The committee recommended that the Seddon Memorial Technical College, with a roll totalling 1800, should be raised to the status of a purely technological college, issuing diplomas and providing a finishing course of two cars in all industrial crafts to students who had been given two years’ prior elementary training. .A further year could be spent by advanced students working for approved employers in conjunction with the college staff, and awards of diplomas could be made on the results obtained. The committee said the college was overcrowded and next year the enrolments were expected to reach 2400, making the college unwieldly. Relief was therefore urgent!?/ needed. The opinion was expressed that greater need should be provided for night classs in industrial suburbs to stem the increase In the juvenile deliquency by providing attractive occupation in the evenings. Referring to country communities, the committee said a junior agricultural school should be attached to each intermediate school, with a definite two years’ course preparatory to an intensive diploma course of two years at the agricultural college. As the school age was being raised to 15, the committee said it was concerned to provide a course both palatable and efficient for the large number ot children who would be required to continue an additional year at school. If something of this nature was not provided New Zealand educational institutions would contain a percentage of rebellious pupils who would do much to sabotage the usefulness of the additional year.
Without discussing the report the board decided to set up a committee of five to go thoroughly into the proposals and report back.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 273, 18 November 1943, Page 3
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