[?] Forum Is

Letter To The Editor

[?] Forum Is [?]st What The [?]C Plans

, — Mr. Robson, in an article on ition in Western Samoa in your iry issue, quotes local residents ondering on the impacts of \tion on traditional discipline behaviour, and one as saying— -3Y has the SPC, which has had discussions on all sorts of other things, not organised urn of practical teachers on subjects, especially the effect village school education on a ry’s social outlook and ns?” i SPC decided in 1957 to hold :ional seminar at high pro nal level to discuss the various ;ms of education. It takes some to crystallise ideas on such a subject, but it is now definite this Regional Educational lar will be held at Brisbane, ?h the courtesy of the Uni -7 of Queensland, and most bly from November 15 to 27 ; expected that at least 11 and bly more territories will send top educationists, and that the nments that participate in the ussion will send high-level entatives. agenda for discussion will

The provision of varying types and both* ° f education in relation to a limited budget, and (b) the professional and occupa tional needs of a territory; The training of teachers; The place of an educational aids service in relation to an expand ing educational system- The methods of teaching languages; B The role of the Commission, and specific activities which it might undertake, in association with the territories, in the field of educa tion.

I am, etc., „ r . C. G. R. McKay.

Wangarei, NZ, February 12, 1959.