POST-PRIMARY EDUCATION.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 11 December 1925, Page 3

POST-PRIMARY EDUCATION.

MOBE ISTSPECTOES. (By Telegraph —i-'iesa Association.) A UCKLAN D, Thursday. The Minister for Education (Wir James l’arr) announced that he had obtained authority for the appointment of two additional inspectors of secondarv schools. These officers, in addition to the present inspectors, will be able to give a thorough annual iu.'pection ol each secondary school, instead of a biennial one as at urvie.'.-t. they wid also, in association with the primal 1 ) school inspectors, inspect the secondary departments of district high schools. This will bring the district high schools more closely in touch with general secondary education and will enable the inspectors to classify teachers under olie secondary school classification scheme. Secondary, primary and technical schools inspectors may also act in conjunction to examine in general subjects, such as French, English, historv, geography and mathematics, taken at •.(•clinical schools. Tlie Minister hopes that, with the increased staff and with the \arious forms of co-ordination mentioned, all forms of post-primary work will be brought into closer relationship, that teachers in the various branches' will have additional opportunities of passing from one branch to the ot.liei and that better recognition can be given fo general educational work done in district and technical high schools.