Victoria University of Wellington Library
The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 41
Part I
Part I
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Reference to a preliminary report to the Minister of Education
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Good work done by the Education Department
3
Want of organization
3
Over centralization
4
School census
4
Registration
4
Prosecutions now ordered by the department should be ordered by the school board
5
No recognised test of private education
5
No child must be withdrawn from inspection
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The license of changing schools must be abridged
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Proposed change in the method of calculating attendances
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The legal minimum of school attendances has been fixed too low
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Economy of increased school attendances
8
"Gutter children"
9
Existing ragged schools
9
Industrial schools
10
Extra subjects
10
Endowment of high schools
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Scholarships tenable at the University or at affiliated colleges
11
Practical uses of university education
12
Proper model for a Colonial University
13
Some advantages of a faculty of Practical Science
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Cheapest way of effecting the change
14
Payment and promotion of teacher
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Actual system
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Proposed central Training College
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Promotion
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Objection to the present system of teaching extras
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Range of a teacher's work should be increased
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Present system of payment by results
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Manipulation of classes
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Proposed system
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Retiring pensions
21
Office and work of a school inspector
21
Proposed inspectoral staff
21
Payment of inspectors
22
More thorough general supervision of the inspectors required
22
Boards of advice should be allowed to expend small sums on repairs
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Boards of advice should have the power of refusing to receive a disgraced teacher
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Greater responsibility of boards of advice under the proposed system
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Prizes
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School buildings
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Proper site for a school
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Position of the inspector-general
27
Appointment of a second examiner
27
The Education Department to be brought under the Civil Service Act
28
Useless papers should be destroyed
29
Effect of the proposed changes on parents, children, teachers, and inspectors
29
Economy effected by the proposed changes
30
Cost of the proposed changes
31
The changes proposed are recommended as relatively not as absolutely best
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Promotion by merit
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