EDUCATIONAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 6432, 3 January 1900, Page 3

EDUCATIONAL.

{Telegraph.—Press Associulioit). Timaku, Tuesday.

The Council of the Educational jffltitute met here to-day. The Minister for Education atteuded and gave an address, the chief point being a promise to introduce a Bill to provide for a colonial ecale of staffs and salaries. For this a special resolution of thanks was passed to the Minister. Mr Walker promised to submit the proposal to the Institute, the Boards and others concerned before Parliament meets. With regard to the complaints that the syllabus wbb overloaded, he recommended waiting a year at least LefoJkitternptirig to. alter it, in ordsSKo see the effect of tho new regulations freedom of classification. This seemed to ha generally approved. The President, Mr J. A. Johnson, M.A., of Timaru, gave an interesting address on tho need for better provision for training pupil teachers, urging the establishment of at least one training collego, and suggesting that Victoria College, Wellington, should make Pedagogy its speciality. • The council affirmed tho need for provision being made for training teachers; protested against the practico of Bome Boards of dismissing certificated pupil teachers, and taking on new candidates; affirmed tho principle that the number of pupil teachers should not; exceed one to live certificated to^eb^re; declined by nineteeu to . fifteen to approve a system of bonuses for length of service, 4