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predominate more and more, which would make it possible to 

 adjust the number of trained apprentices to the needs of the 

 industry by regulating the number of bursaries in individual 

 trades, and thus to avoid the excessive supply found in connection 

 with the German system. Let me add that this scheme does not 

 contemplate the donation of moneys to the Government ; these 

 schools are controlled, like high schools, by Governing Bodies. 

 The allocation of the money will not lie with me as a departmental 

 official, but with the donors in consultation with the governing 

 body, who will have the advice of the men on the spot and of the 

 Principal of the school to guide them. Before I leave the ques- 

 tion of bursary award I would like to draw attention to the 

 following notices from the London County Council Gazette as 

 the latest step in the training of artisans in London:— - 



TRADE SCHOLARSHIP FOR BOYS. 1912. 



The Council will be prepared to award during 1912 about 166 trade 

 scholarships for boys ; these awards will be tenable at technical day 

 schools. They will provide free specialised training in various skilled 

 trades for two or three years, and. in addition, maintenance grants rang- 

 ing from £16 to £40. The successful candidates will receive such instruc- 

 tion as will prepare them on the completion of their training to take up 

 apprenticeships or employment in skilled trades. 



Scholarships are offered in engineering, ,i)uilding trades, furniture- 

 making, printing, bookbinding, silversmithing, cookery (for training boys 

 as chefs), and general technical training. 



Parents and teachers are recommended to consider carefully the 

 exceptional opportunities that are presented in the scheme for the award 

 of trade scholarships for boys. 



PUPIL-TEACHERSHIPS OF HANDICRAFT. 



The Council is prepared to award in June, 1912, 10 pupil-teacherships 

 of handicraft, to boys who are not less thait* fourteen years of age on 

 31st July, 1912. 



These awards provide free instruction ( with the use of books and 

 tools) at the L.C.C. Shoreditch Technical Institute, Pittield Street. Hox- 

 ton. N. The course of study extends over a period of four years. In the 

 last two years of the awards pupil-teachers attend the handicraft centres 

 attached to elementary schools on two days a week to receive training in 

 the art of teaching handicraft. 



The awards include maintenance grants as follows : — First year £10, 

 second year £15, third year £30, fourth year £40. Pupil-teachers of handi- 

 craft on the satisfactory completion of their four years' training, are 

 eligible for appointment as senior assistant instructors in handicraft at a 

 commencing salary of £60 a year. It must, however, be distinctly under- 

 stood that the Council is under no obligation to find employment for pupil- 

 teachers of handicraft ujinn tJTe completion of their training. 



HALF-TIME SCHOLARSHIPS IN ELECTRO-PLATING AND 

 WATCH AND CLOCK MAKING. 

 The Council has decided to award in January, 1912, not more than 

 four scholarships in electro-plating" and four scholarships in watch and 

 clock making. The awards are intended for boys who are actually appren- 

 tices or eniployees engaged in the trades of electro-plating or watch and 

 clock making. Candidates must be nominated by their employers, and 

 must obtain from them recommendations as to their conduct, industry 

 and dexterity in their trades. (14.) 



