The Currie Commission on Education in its report (1962) recommended that secondary education for all pupils begin in Form I at the average age of 11 plus, and suggested ways in which parts of the system could be reorganised to achieve this aim. Chief among these proposals were those for setting up, in suitable rural areas, high schools catering for pupils of Forms I–VI and for reconstituting intermediate schools as two-year junior high schools. Three experimental rural high schools, at Geraldine, Te Karaka, and Picton have been established.
Co-creator
John Lithgow Ewing, M.A., DIP.ED., Chief Inspector of Primary Schools, Department of Education, Wellington.