EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 6 January 1909, Page 5

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE.

IMPORTANT RESOLUTION

(Per Press Association.)

DUNEDIN, January 6. The Educational Institute Conference was continued to-day, when the following resolutions were adopted:— " That at least one session of the annual meeting be devoted to* topics connected with the discharge of school duties."

"That the mathematical and other difficult portions in course A and geography be deleted from the syllabus or transferred to course B, and that a, portion of course B be substituted in lieu thereof."

" That travelling expenses of the executive be paid out of the general fund."

" That the Minister of Education be requested to see that the' Education Act is administered by the Boards in accordance with the provisions of the Act and the departmental regulations."

" That the Minister be asked to frame regulations, so as to prcvide.for the Education Department's acceptance of the required medical certificate on the first entrance of a teacher into the teaching profession."

" That the Minister be respectfully asked to formulate a tentative scheme for the promotion of .teachers, such scheme to embody the principles accepted by the institute at its meeting in 1903."

" That the inspectors of the Dominion should be placed under the controPof the central department with respect to the interpretation of the regulations and syllabus."

" That a colonial scale of salaries for inspectors is urgently needed." A motion that rifle shooting should be placed on the syllabus as an optional subject was lost.