PROFICIENCY TESTS
ALTERATIONS NOT SEVERE. \ DEPUTATION. TO MINISTER. (By Telegrapn.— Tress Association.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. Alterations in the proficiency examination regulations were not severe, neither was, the accrediting system necessarily to he done away with altogether, stated the Minister of Education, the Hon. R. Masters, in his reply to a deputation of the New Zealand Federation of Teachers, which waited upon him to-day in respect of the proposed changes. He added he proposed to give the new system a year’s trial and lie was not committing himself in any. way. -
Mr F. C. Brew, chairman of the New Zealand Educational Institute, asked that the proposed changes be postponed for a year, or that, in each education district, the percentage of passes in competency and proficiency taken together should be maintained in order to e-qual the average over the five-year period, 1926-1830. Mr F. M. Renner contended the abolition of accrediting was a wholly retrograde step. The Minister said he would go into the different points raised and give the consideration due to them.
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Waikato Times, Volume 110, Issue 18478, 5 November 1931, Page 10
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