Examinations System Out of Favor Retard Pupils' Progress New Education Conference Brisbane
Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 August 1937 · page 5
Experts from all countries were agreed that the examination system of each country was seriously retarding education progress, declared…
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Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 August 1937 · page 8
A motion by Cr. J. Kennedy, that the authorities be asked to introduce compulsory military training in schools for all boys 12 years of age and over…
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Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 August 1937 · page 4
In passing some books to a companion at the Grafton Public School yesterday afternoon Betty Keynes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Keynes, of Prince…
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Daily Examiner · Tuesday 10 August 1937 · page 4
A meeting of representatives of P. and C. Associations of Ulmarra and district, convened by the Mayor of Ulmarra at the request of Calliope and…
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Daily Examiner · Tuesday 10 August 1937 · page 4
Included in the list of officials who assisted at the Catholic school sports on Saturday were Messrs. J. H. McDonald, E. G. Bartley and H. Farrar. The two…
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Daily Examiner · Tuesday 10 August 1937 · page 4
Members of the Grafton Public School P. and C. Association are reminded that the usual monthly meeting will be held in the schoolroom, Bacon…
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Daily Examiner · Wednesday 11 August 1937 · page 5
The world was coming to see sense, so far as home lessons were concerned, said Professor Boyd, a world-famous education authority, speaking…
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Daily Examiner · Wednesday 11 August 1937 · page 3
At a meeting of the Grafton Public School Parents and Citizens' Association last night, it was decided to send a letter to the Minister for Education…
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Daily Examiner · Thursday 12 August 1937 · page 5
Teachers should have personal experience of business and industrial conditions, so that they could prepare children for alter school life…
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Daily Examiner · Thursday 12 August 1937 · page 4
"The city of Grafton, I think, compares very favorably with some of the larger provincial towns in New Zealand, such as Wanganui, New Plymouth…
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The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 13 August 1937 · page 2
Between 400 and 500 children from Bellinger, Nambucca, Coff's Harbour and Dorrigo Convent School participated in the annual sports gathering…
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Daily Examiner · Friday 13 August 1937 · page 1
A drive to inculcate air-mindedness in primary and super-primary school children throughout the State is to be made by the Education Department. A…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →No Home Work School in Finland Students Manage Finances New Education Conference Sydney
Daily Examiner · Friday 13 August 1937 · page 5
A school where no home work is set for the first eight years' schooling, was described by Dr. Laurin Zillicaus, Finnish education authority, to the…
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Daily Examiner · Friday 13 August 1937 · page 5
Since the outbreak of infantile paralysis, the city itself has been free of cases, but to-day two cases were reported from within the city boundaries…
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Daily Examiner · Friday 13 August 1937 · page 4
"It is rather amazing that so much of this new education should be concerned with the child's individuality and not with the individuality…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Schoolmate Ascot Hdcp. Winner Brown Force At W.F.A. Hazak and Captain Brisbane
Daily Examiner · Monday 16 August 1937 · page 3
Finishing wide out after leading from barrier to box, Schoolmate had an easy victory in the Ascot Handicap, the first leg of the big treble, run…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Opinions of Our Readers [?]Eligious Instruction--south Grafton Public School
Daily Examiner · Tuesday 17 August 1937 · page 7
Sir,--Recently arrangements were made for the Salvation Army representative at Grafton to visit the South Grafton Public School each Wednesday…
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Daily Examiner · Wednesday 18 August 1937 · page 5
Teachers are expressing resentment at the order of the Auckland Education Board that they must not smoke inside school buildings or in the…
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The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 20 August 1937 · page 4
Few Dorrigo folk when driving past Thora Store realise that about 200 yards up the Thora road is a State School which won the champion…
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The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 20 August 1937 · page 3
We have pleasure in extending an invitation to parents of pupils and to all others interested in the school to be present at a function which is to…
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