Education In Bsi
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From Our Own Correspondent
Honiara, Oct. 12
A N Education Conference was held in Honiara, on September 25 and 26, at which representatives of the Maris c Mission, Melanesian Mission, Seventh Day Adventist and Methodist Missions discussed with the Judicial Commissioner and Director of Education the provisions of proposed new BSI education legislation and other matters of educational policy.
Under the proposed Education Regu lations, on which agreement was reached in principle, the Government will make some financial contribution towards run ning costs of Mission Schools, the expenses of which have previously beer met entirely by Missions.
Other matters discussed were the Government Experimental School recently opened at Auki, Malaita; the urgent necessity for a supply of trained native teachers: and a suggestion that some form of mass education campaign be launched among BSIP natives. Mission teachers of long experience estimate that it will be ten years before the handicap of complete lack of schooling for natives during the war, is overcome.