Prune Medical Schools Moral And Cultural Test Mooted
A "moral and cultural" test for medical students, as a means of restricting the number of doctors in Australia, was suggested by a…
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Teacher Retiring London
Mr. H. N. P. Sloman, a former headmaster of Sydney Grammar School, who has been headmaster at Tonbridge since 1921, is about to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mechanics Win Wars Role of Technical School in Defence Canberra
INCREASING mechanisation of warfare emphasises the national importance of technical…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Two Medical Schools Overcrowded
Professor H. Priestley, of the Department of Bio-chemistry at Sydney University, said last evening that at the medical schools in Sydney and in Melbourne there were too many…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Many Social Problems. Summer School at Canberra. Means Test Attacked. CANBERRA
"There are so many inconsistencics in our social policy that it is almost absurd to talk of a policy," said Professor F. A. Bland, professor…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Women at Summer School. Canberra Gathering
The Summer School of Political Science, which closed its sessions in Canberra last night, was attended by many women. Mrs. Norman Cowper accompanied her…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Schools Reopen To-day. End of Christmas Vacation
All schools under the control of the Education Department, except those in the western division of New South Wales, will reopen this morning after the Christmas vacation. Schools…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →New School Buildings. Kyogle
The Department of Education has notified the Parents and Citizens' Council that plans are being prepared for new school buildings at Kilgra Public School…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Examination Reform. Removing Evils. Internal Tests in Schools
A reformed examination system, which would substitute internal school examinations for the existing intermediate and leaving certificate…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Gifted Pupil Classes Select Groups at Work To-day School Term Begins
As classrooms in the State schools filled again today, a select group of about 700 boys and girls began work in 22 classes at five metropolitan schools. These, regarded as the "top three…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Call Teacher by Own Name Perth
Co-operation between teachers and pupils at one school in Holland is carried out to such an extent that the children call the teachers by their…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →400,000 Children On The Road Back 60,000 Enter High Schools
Four hundred thousand children go back to school this morning. About 300.000 will attend State…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Back to School
Holidays over--and thoughts turn once more to school and happy reunions. Here Mother is helping her young daughter pack for her first term as a boarder. Into that capacious case goes a gay floral dressing-gown, a trimly tailored flannel blazer, a regulation college uniform, and cool, cotton blouses, essentials in the student…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Musical Successes Miss Lilian Harvey's Pupils
The following list of successful pianoforte and theoretical students, for the year ending December, 1938, is from the Studios of Miss Lilian Harvey, St…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Melba School of Singing and Languages
The vocal scholarship which Miss Ethel Glynn-Parker is arranging and at which a well known Professor of the State Conservatorium will adjudicate, for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →History of Parramatta High School: Work of First Headmaster
With the history of Parramatta High School, the name W. L. Atkins is inextricably interwoven. The first headmaster of this school. and one who figured prominently in the negotiations for its establishment he served it for twenty-one years before, having reached the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Modern Girl a School Superintendent's Praise
WE frequently hear and read much criticism of the modern girl, in which she is unfavorably compared with her sister of, say, pre-war days…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hitler's Marble Study in New Berlin Chancellery — School Children Play on Barricaded Roadway
Herr Hitler's study in the rebuilt chancellery in Berlin [?] furnished with [?] furniture and [?] tries and paintings from the…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Schools Re-opened Yesterday. 370,000 Enrolments
The school year began yesterday for about 370,000 girls and boys in New South Wales. Officials at the Education Department estimated the a location of pupils to be as follows:…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Examination Reform. Minister Expects Modification. Teachers Support Changes
A modification of the present examination system in schools on the lines suggested in the "Herald" yesterday by Mr. Peter Board a former Director of…
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