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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 83

[24th September, 1878.]

[24th September, 1878.]

1. The Education Board of any district in which any normal school or training college is situated shall have the entire control and management of such school or college, subject to the provisions hereinafter made.

2. Every normal school or training college shall be so organized as to afford to persons of both sexes intending to become teachers in public schools the means of acquiring sufficient knowledge of the subjects which they will afterwards be required to teach, and of theories of education and methods of teaching, and also to afford to such persons sufficient opportunity of practising the art of teaching.

3. The terms of admission to any normal school or training college shall be such as to make no distinction between applicants residing within the bounds of the education district in which such institution is situate and applicants residing in an education district where there is no such institution.

4. In the arrangement of the plan of study in any normal school or training college regard shall be had to the opportunities of instruction offered to the students in such school or college by means of lectures in any neighbouring institution affiliated to the University of New Zealand.

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5. Any Education Board having the control of a normal school or training college may establish or maintain, in connection with such school or college, a public school to be used as a practising school; or may agree with the Committee of any school district for the use of any public school within such district as a practising school, subject to such conditions as may be agreed upon with regard to the relations which shall in that case subsist between the principal officer of the training college and the head master of the public school.

6. Every Education Board having the control of a normal school or training college shall frame regulations for the organization and conduct of the institution, and shall submit such regulations to the Minister of Education; and upon receiving his approval such regulations shall come into force, and shall not be altered or amended without his authority. Such regulations shall relate to the matters following:—
  • The number, status, salaries, and duties of the officers of the training college;
  • The terms of admission to the college;
  • The time during which each student will be required or allowed to continue at the college;
  • The subjects of study, and the time alloted to each (approximately);
  • The arrangements for employing students in the actual work of teaching, and the proportion of time spent in such work;
  • The relations of the training college and of its officer or officers to the practising school;
  • The organization of the practising school.

7. These regulations shall come into force upon the date hereof.