At Saturday's meeting the subjects of the mutual recogni- tion
of teachers' certificates and the interchange of teachers and inapectors were discussed, and valuable addresses were delivered by delegates from Toronto and New Zealand, Mr. S. H. Butcher, M.P., and Professor Sadler, who out- lined a scheme for the interchange of a hundred and fifty teacher's between the United Kingdom and the Empire, and advocated as an essential part of the scheme the establishment of a central and representative Bureau of Education for the Empire, which should ultimately form part of the Secretariat of the Imperial Conference. With this and other questions suggested by the Conference we deal else- where. We entirely agree with Mr. Butcher when he said that we should have, as far as possible, open thoroughfares between all the classrooms and halls of the Empire. Dr. Starkie, on the other hand, pointed out that it did not at all follow that when a teacher bad experienced the pleasures of a foreign country and the allurements of a higher salary, he would be prepared to return to his native country. The standardisation of certificates not only postulates the standardi- sation of merit, but of salaries as well.
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