EDUCATION DEPARTMENT’S DECISION.
THE STANDARD OF EXEMPTION. {.PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.J WELLINGTON, June S. Acting under the statutory power which has been in existence for many vears, the Education Department has decided that from January Ist next, the standard of exemption from attendance at primary school will be raised from the fifth to a pass in the sixth standard. For many years the fourth standard waethe highest which had to be passed to secure exemption, but, in accordance with a steady tendency towards increasing the educational requirements, the ffith was adopted and now the sixth had been made the compulsory point in the educational course of New Zealand children.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3240, 9 June 1911, Page 4
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108EDUCATION DEPARTMENT’S DECISION. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3240, 9 June 1911, Page 4
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