NEW COURSES FOR SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Twelve new short courses dealing with education in the war period, and a new one-year program leading to the degree of Master of Education, were announced yesterday by the Graduate School of Education.

"An impending shortage of trained educational workers is expected to open positions of leadership in the field as a result of the war emergency," the announcement said. "The new Harvard program is designed to help successful teachers get advanced training readily in as short a time as possible and in less expensive units."

The new program for the degree of Master of Education is designed to meet the needs in professional training arising out of the war situation, it was explained, and represents a more compact organization of the School's instruction for training school administrators, supervisors, and special workers in such fields as measurement, guidance, and psychology.

The twelve new short courses deal with such problems as morale and education, war-time problems of education policy and administration, and the adjusting of specific school courses to the demands of war and reconstruction.

The short courses will meet in most cases once a week in the late afternoon, evening or Saturday morning hours, for either half of the spring term, which starts this week, and tuition is proportional to the time spent, in order to make the work readily available to teachers in service. In most courses, auditors or non-credit students are admitted at half the regular fee.

Open to successful and properly qualified teachers the new program makes specialized training for advanced positions available through full-time residence, part-time work in the regular sessions, or summer term work. Students may begin the program in February, June, or in September, and remain in continuous full or part-time residence, or do intermittent work.