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Proprietary Schools
49
The University Extension Movement
55
THE OPERATION OF THE GRANTS MADE BY THE DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE
60
The Relations between Schools
66
Overlapping from oversupply
73
General rule for determining provision required cannot be laid
74
Needs of higher elementary schools
79
REVIEW OF EVIDENCE WITH DISCUSSION OF SUGGESTIONS
81
THE CHARITY COMMISSION
88
Conflict of opinion
95
THE COUNCIL TO ASSIST THE MINISTER
104
B THE LOCAL AUTHORITY
110
a Representation of universities
117
Preference expressed for inspection by central authority
121
Mode of election of expert members
123
Functions and Powers
128
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132
Secondary comprehends technical education
135
Third grade schools
143
Remarks on failure of upper departments attached to elemen
154
Religious instruction
158
Advantages and disadvantages
160
Restriction of Scholarships to particular Schools and Classes
168
Remedies suggested
174
Science and Art grants
180
Changes suggested
181
Opinion of witnesses as to need of further State aid
182
Insufficiency of data for determining the question
183
Suggestions for free education to a limited extent
184
Intricacy of the question
185
Conclusion
186
Considerations to be taken into account
187
Estimate of cost of schools of third grade
188
F THE TEACHERS 105 Improvement in position of teachers
189
Movement in favour of purely professional organisation
190
Danger of too much interference with liberty of teachers
191
Registration of Teachers 109 Agreement as to need and aims of registration
192
Opinions as to compulsory registration
194
Difference largely due to circumstances which have changed
195
Suggestions for its adjustment
196
Suggestions for classification of register
197
PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION OF TEACHERS 115 Antagonistic evidence
198
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199
Course of Professional Education 117 Suggestions for theoretical course
200
Relation of theory and practice
201
Length of course
202
b Apprenticeship in Schools Observations on the apprentice ship of teachers in England
203
Suggestions for its development
204
difference as to extent
205
Suggestions for securing better payment of teachers
211
Suggestions with regard to dismissal
217
Balance of advantages and disadvantages
223
Suggestion that local authority should initiate schemes
265
Representation of managers of public elementary schools
269
Constitution of a Local Authority for London
270
Its area
271
Appointment of women
272
Obligation to make adequate provision for secondary instruction
273
Obligation to have regard to existing proprietary and private schools
274
Appeal of proprietary and private schools against action of local authority
275
Supervision of endowed schools within area
276
General power of supervision over all secondary schools
277
Sanitary inspection
278
Appointment of inspectors
279
Establishment of scholarships 280 65 Right of representation on governing bodies
280
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281
ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE BETTER ORGANISATION OF SCHOOLS 72 Methods of treating question of provision of schools
282
Combination of schools of first and second grade
283
Modification of procedure under Endowed Schools Acts
289
Need for special treatment
295
Upper departments in elementary schools
296
SOME CONSIDERATIONS RELATING ESPECIALLY TO THE SECONDARY EDUCATION
297
representation of local authority
298
Submission of accounts to local authority
299
Kinds of scholarships tenable at secondary schools
300
Value of scholarships
301
Provision of free places in return for public grant
302
Need for reform of scholarship system in nonlocal endowed schools
303
Central Office should regulate but not conduct examinations 304
304
Importance of vivâ voce examination
305
Administrative and educational inspection
306
FINANCIAL ARRANGEMENTS 136 Sources of income available
307
Their proper function
308
Advantages of recognition
319
Inspection and Examination of Schools
366
General agreement in favour of inspection of public schools
449
Inspection of endowed schools
6
85
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21
34
Endowments
43
Suggestions as to future control of higher grade elementary
47
Educational inspection
70
Increased interest in education of girls
85
Evening continuation school grants
94
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96
Observations on plan recommended
99
Criticism by witnesses of present system as regards instruction
107
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125
Objections to simultaneous written examinations 242
242
To consider objections to schemes and direct local enquiries 262
262
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Advantages of amalgamation with Ministry of Education
587
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Page iv - Presents give and grant unto you, or any three or more of you, full power to call before you such persons as you shall judge likely to afford you any information upon the subject of this Our Commission ; to call for information in writing and also to call for, have access to and examine all such books, documents, registers and records as may afford you the fullest information on the subject, and to inquire of and concerning the premises by all other lawful ways and means whatsoever...
Page 136 - No definition of technical instruction is possible that does not bring it under the head of secondary education, nor can secondary education be so defined as absolutely to exclude from it the idea of technical instruction.
Page iv - And we do further ordain that you, or any three or more of you, have liberty to report your proceedings under this Our Commission from time to time if you shall judge it expedient so to do: And our further will and pleasure is that you do, with as little delay as possible, report to Us under your hands and seals, or under the hands and seals of any three or more of you, your opinion upon the matters herein submitted for your consideration...
Page 136 - And secondary instruction is technical, ie, it teaches the boy so to apply the principles he is learning, and so to learn the principles by applying them, or so to use the instruments he is being made to know, as to perform or produce something, interpret a literature or a science, make a picture or a book, practise a plastic or a manual art, convince a jury or persuade a senate, translate or annotate an author, dye wool, weave cloth, design or construct a machine, navigate a ship, or command an...
Page iv - We do by these Presents will and ordain that this Our Commission shall continue in full force and virtue, and that you, Our said Commissioners, or any three or more of you may from time to time proceed in the execution thereof, and of every matter and thing therein contained, although the same be not continued from time to time by adjournment. AND...
Page iv - We do further give and grant unto you, or any three or more of you, full power to call before you such persons as you shall judge likely to afford you any information upon the subject of this Our Commission; and also to call for, have access to and examine all such books, documents, registers and records as may afford you the fullest information on the subject and to inquire of and concerning the premises by all other lawful ways and means whatsoever...
Page iii - The scope of the commission was nothing less than : to consider what are the best methods of establishing a well-organised system of secondary education in England, taking into account existing deficiencies, and having regard to such local sources of revenue from endowments and otherwise as are available or may be made available for this purpose and to make recommendations accordingly.
Page 16 - ... depends on the knowledge he already possesses of them. The idea of technical instruction as a means for the formation of citizens capable of producing or distributing wealth, has taken hold, though in varying degrees of intelligence and intensity, of both our old borough councils and our new county councils, and hence has come a concern for that kind of education that we might otherwise have looked for in vain.
Page 40 - ... namely, — Doles in money or kind ; Marriage portions ; Redemption of prisoners and captives ; Relief of poor prisoners for debt ; Loans ; Apprenticeship fees ; Advancement in life, or Any purposes which have failed altogether...
Page 328 - But we attach no less importance to the faults of dullness and barrenness to which so many lives are condemned by the absence of those capacities for intellectual enjoyment which ought to be awakened in youth. In an age of increasing leisure and luxury, when men have more time and opportunity for pleasure, and pursue it more eagerly, it becomes all...

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