EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 709, 3 January 1903, Page 3

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE.

ANNUAL MEETING. By Telegraph—Press Assooiation. Napier, last night. The annual meeting of the New Zealand Educational Institute was commenced hero to day, the delegates being received by Councillor C. H. Edwards in the absence of tho Mayor. The President of the Institute, Mr G. W. Murray, of Auckland, delivered a very able presidential address. Forty-seven delegates were present from all parts of the colony. The following is an abstract of t-bo business done : The remit dealing with tho fixing of a minimum salary for each position was withdrawn in favor of remit No. 14, which is as follows: “It is desirable that schools shall be classified, and that teachers’ salaries depend on the classification of the schools to which they are appointed, and not on the average attendance.” It was agreed “ That the Secretary of tho New Zealand Education Institute should bring under the notice of the Health Department the difficulties which teachers have experienced in dealing with infectious diseases, and respectfully requesting that means be taken to deal with the difficulties.”

The following motions were taken together, and carried after lengthy discussion :—l. “ That the Inspectors should be placed under tho oontrol of the Education Department.” 2. 11 That the Inspectorate be centralised.” Considerable discussion took place over the proposed regulations of the Education Department for the examination and classification of teachers, and eventually it was decided that tbis Institute approves of the proposed division of teachers certificated into three classes, with three grades in each class. An amendment was also carried that the following elause be added to the regulations, but that the literary attainment recognised for the lower or O grade be of a stage much higher chan that specified for the Junior Civil Service Examination, or for the Matriculation Examination of tho New Zealand University, and a further amendment that “ The endorsement on a certificate of grade B should be a rocord only of such successes as aro obtained by passing ” was also carried.

It was resolved to asu tho Education Department to interpret the word “ He ” in the regulations, in order to see whether it was intended to include lady teachers.