✨ Education System Analysis
Pupil Teachers.
Payment by Results.
Programme of the Course of Instruction.
Registers and Returns.
I.—The Victorian System.
The Victorian system secures suitable school buildings, premises, and apparatus, and sufficient teaching power before the routine of school-work is commenced.
In the onset no aid can be received unless there be a suitable building, sufficient space, warmth, ventilation, drainage, playground, furniture and apparatus.
A duly qualified teacher can then enter upon his work unembarrassed by the impediment of an incomplete building and deficient material.
Further provision is made for the employment of assistance when required.
II.—The Power of the Board.
The approval or appointment of local committees rests with the Board. It can also, with the consent of the Governor, give the local committees one month's notice of removal.
It also assigns the duties of the local committees.
It also regulates details, elsewhere either cared for or neglected by the local committees.
III.—Power of the Inspector.
(General Regulations, page 6, Regulation 6.)
No aid can be received except upon the report of the Inspector that the Board's regulations and conditions have been complied with.
This secures the means of efficiency in the onset.
Reg. 39.—The grant may be withdrawn or reduced after one month's notice, upon the report of the Inspector as to deficient organisation, instruction or discipline.
This must act as a much more decisive check upon inefficiency, than reiterated complaints of defects frequently recurring.
IV.—The Examination of Teachers—Graduated Certificates.
This system is coupled, as in England, with a scale of augmentation according to the grade and class of certificate. It guides the Local Committees in the selection of teachers, remunerates the latter more in proportion with their qualifications, stimulates them to improvement, and diverts their attention from useless vagaries (to wit, lecturing on phrenology by persons ignorant of English), into channels more suited to their own requirements, and to those of their scholars.
V.—Pupil Teachers.
The Regulations provide for the supply of pupil teachers according to the average attendance; one pupil-teacher for every twenty-five over the first twenty-five—i.e.
Average attendance 50 ... 1 pupil-teacher.
" " 75 ... 2 " "
" " 100 ... 3 " "
The help is very inconsiderable at first; because an average of fifty may represent an occasional attendance of sixty; and fifty or sixty children, of all ages and very various attainments, are too many for one teacher. It would be very advantageous to the schools in this Province if a pupil-teacher system could be established; but it must be borne in mind that
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1871, No 24A
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Remarks on Victorian Education Regulations
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