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(9) The use to the children in after-life of the industrial training 

 received in the schools. 



The British Association Committee ask to be reappointed to inquire 

 into the curricula and domestic and educational arrangements of un- 

 certified reformatory and industrial schools in England, of all refor- 

 matory and industrial schools in Scotland, and of Poor Law schools in 

 Britain. 



The inquiry is a wide one and will involve some expense in visiting 

 certain of the schools. The Committee therefore ask for a grant of 10L 

 towards the expenses of the inquiry. 



The Overlapping between Secondary Education and that of Universities 

 and other places of Higher Education. — Report of the Committee, 

 consisting of Principal H. A. Miers (Chairman), Professor E. A. 

 Gregory (Secretary), Mr. D. Berridge, Mr. C. H. Bothamley, 

 Miss S. A. Burstall, Miss L. J. Clarke, Miss A. J. Cooper, Miss B. 

 Foxley, Principal E. H. Griffiths, and Professor A. Smithells, 

 appointed to inquire into and report thereupon. 



The Committee desires it to be understood that the siibjoined 

 statement is an Interim Report only, and is limited to evidence relating 

 to certain types of educational institutions. Further evidence, and 

 the conclusions of the Committee, are reserved for a later Report. 



During the past few years there have been many complaints of the 

 want of co-ordination between the work of secondary schools and that of 

 universities and other places of higher education. On one side it is 

 stated that secondary schools are encouraged to retain pupils who 

 should be continuing their studies in an institution of university stand- 

 ing, and to present these pupils for such examinations as those of Inter- 

 mediate Arts or Science of London University. On the other side, it is 

 held that universities and technical institutions are to some extent 

 doing the work of secondary schools by admitting students who are 

 unable to profit by the instruction given and ought to be taking school 

 courses. In an organised educational system this alleged overlapping 

 of educational work would, of course, be avoided. There would be a 

 definite standard of entrance to a university or technical institution, 

 and any work which a pupil at a secondary school might do beyond 

 this standard would be of a supererogatory character carrying with it no 

 additional academic distinction. Our educational institutions have, 

 however, grown up in haphazard fashion without proper interrelation- 

 ship between them ; so it has come about that measured by numbers of 

 successful candidates in university examinations some secondary and 

 technical schools compare favourably with institutions which are 

 ranked as of higher educational standing, while universities and uni- 

 versity colleges are holding preparatory classes to enable a certain num- 

 ber of students to pass a qualifying examination, such as that of London 

 matriculation or its equivalent, which ought to be taken from a 

 secondary school. 



