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REPORTS ON THE state oe science. 



Table II. — Technical Institutions under Article 35 of the Board of Education's 

 Regulations for Technical Schools, dkc. 



Cornwall . . Mining School, Camborne ; School of Mines, Redruth. 



Derbyshire . Municipal Technical College, Derby. 



Devonshire . Municipal Technical School, Plymouth. 



Durham . . Technical College, Darlington ; Municipal Technical College, 

 Sunderland. 



Essex . . Municipal Technical Institute, West Ham. 



Gloucestershire . Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester ; Merchant Venturers' 

 Technical College, Bristol. 



Hampshire . Municipal College, Portsmouth ; Hartley University College, 

 Southampton. 



Kent . . . Horticultural College, Swanley. 



Lancashire . Municipal Technical School, Blackburn ; University of Liverpool 

 (Engineering and Architecture) ; Municipal School of Tech- 

 nology, Manchester ; Victoria University, Manchester (Engineer- 

 ing) ; Harris Institute, Preston ; Royal Technical Institute, 

 Salford ; Wigan and District Mining and Technical College, 

 Wigan. 



Leicestershire . Municipal Technical School, Leicester. 



London . . Battersea Polytechnic ; Herold's Institute, Bermondsey ; South- 

 Western Polytechnic Institute, Chelsea ; Northampton Poly- 

 technic Institute, Finsbury ; Northern Polytechnic Institute, 

 Holloway ; St. Mary's Hospital Medical School, Paddington ; 

 The Polytechnic, Regent Street ; East London College, Stepney. 



Northumberland Armstrong College, Newcastle-on-Tyne (Engineering, Naval Archi- 

 tecture, and Mining) ; Rutherford College, Newcastle-on-Tyne 

 (Engineering). 



Nottinghamshire University College, Nottingham (Engineering and Mining). 



Surrey . . School of Horticulture, Wisley. 



Sussex . . Municipal Technical College, Brighton. 



Warwickshire . University, Birmingham (Engineering, &c). 



Yorkshire (East Municipal Technical School, Kingston-upon-Hull. 

 Riding) 



Yorkshire ( West Technical College, Bradford ; Municipal Technical College, Halifax ; 

 Riding) Technical College, Huddersfield ; University, Leeds (Engineering. 



Textile Industries, &c.) ; University, Sheffield (Department of 

 Applied Science). 



Table III. — Day Technical Classes (England) under Article 42 of the Board of 

 Education' s Regulations for Technical Schools, «fcc. 



1. Number of institutions and courses : — 1908-09. 



(a) Number of institutions in which day technical classes were recognised . 100 



(b) Number of courses for which grants were paid 175 



2. Students :— 



(a) Number of students who attended at any time during the year : — 



(i) Age at date of first registration for the session : — 



12 and under 15 years of age 3,380 



15 „ „ 18 , 2,759 



18 „ „ 21 „ „ 1,128 



21 years of age and over " 2,799 



(ii) Sex:— 



Boys and men 5,700 



Girls and women 4.366 



(b) Number of students returned as having been previously educated at — 



(i) Public elementary schools 6,935 



(ii) Secondary schools 2,316 



To supplement the particulars provided by the Board of Education's 

 volume of statistics, a circular of inquiry was sent to the principal, 

 director, or headmaster of the seventy-one polytechnics, technical 

 schools, and colleges in Great Britain and Ireland represented upon the 



