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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 103

CURRICULUM.

14. The curriculum of each training college shall provide for a two-years course of training for each student, and shall be subject to the approval of the Minister of Education.

15. In the arrangement of the curriculum regard shall be had to the opportunities of instruction offered by means of lectures at the university college; and, while it shall be borne in mind that the chief aim of the course to be taken up by any student is to develop the powers and character that mark a good teacher, the requirements of the Teachers’ Certificate Examination, and, if possible, of a university degree, shall, as far as they contribute to this end, receive due weight.

16. The curriculum shall include—

(i.) Attendance at the university college at such courses of lectures in English and in such other subject or subjects as the principal shall approve for each student.

(ii.) The principles and history of education; school hygiene; methods of teaching.

(iii.) Special courses in elementary handwork, or kindergarten, and in science for public schools (including nature-study, elementary agriculture and domestic science); provided that students who are attending science classes at the university may be exempted from attendance at science classes at the training college during the year in which they are so attending.

(iv.) Courses in physical drill and singing, and in drawing, and other subjects of manual instruction.

(iv a.) Courses of military drill and rifle shooting for men, and of needlework for women.

(v.) Observation of the child and of methods of teaching; sufficient and regular practice in teaching.

17. (i.) Subject to the general control and management of the Board, the principal shall have full control of the staff of the normal school and training college and of the students; he shall also have power to arrange for the several courses of instruction in accordance with the requirements named above, to allot to himself and the other members of the staff such subjects of instruction as he may find convenient and the Board may approve, to choose text-books, and to determine the course of study and training of each student.

(ii.) A statement shall be furnished to the professorial board giving the names of all training-college students in attendance at the university college, and the classes approved by the principal for each student, in order that the professorial board may be in a position to report to the principal on the progress made by the students.

18. The Board may at any time, on the receipt of a report from the principal, dismiss a student or direct him to cease attendance at the training college on the ground of repeated neglect of duty, or gross misbehaviour, and all allowances to such student shall thereupon cease.

19. The principal shall make an annual report to the Board of the work of the training college, and the Board shall forward that report, with such other report as it may desire to make, to the Minister of Education before the 31st January in each year.

20. The Inspector-General of Schools shall inspect each training college from time to time, and shall report annually to the Minister.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.