Higher Education —

Rarotonga’S Tereora

College

Higher Education — For Some

IN operation, but still being built and a long way from completion, is Rarotonga’s new school for higher education —Tereora College.

It is most attractively situated, with spacious grounds and modern houses for its teaching staff.

Some of the less wealthy Euro pean residents of the Cooks are discovering, however, that their children are not going to be educated there, at least in the foreseeable future. This arises from a ruling that pupils educated at the so-called Side School at Avarua are not eligible for entry to Tereora.

The Side School is a primary school where the standard of education is somewhat more advanced than other schools. It is designed for children who, usually through their better knowledge of the English language, are able to advance more rapidly than children brought up to speak only the Maori language. In effect, this means that the majority of Side School pupils are European or part- European.

Because Tereora College cannot cater for anything like all the

applicants seeking entry, and because the parents of European children are more generally able to afford sending their children to New Zealand secondary schools, the above-mentioned ruling has been given by the Education Department.

It seems unfair, however, that the less wealthy Europeans who have made the Cooks their permanent home, are unable to give their children secondary education.

There are not many such cases, so those affected are hoping that

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