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luitons in England and Wales connected with the Board of Education, 

 this number including students of technology in several provincial 

 universities or university colleges. Of these students, 806 were engaged 

 in the work of the first year, 653 in that of the second, 403 in that 

 of the third, and 125 in still more advanced work. If the standard 

 of entrance to a technical institution, as defined by the Board, were 

 that of a secondary school Leaving Certificate or university Matricula- 

 tion, most of the institutions would be unable to exist. The Board of 

 Education's statistics reveal, in fact, the poverty of the position of 

 systematic technical education in England as regards day classes. 

 Referring to this point, the Board remarks, ' The total amount of 

 advanced instruction of the kind provided in technical institutions is 

 still disappointingly small. In some of the more important industries, 

 as, for example, engineering, the instruction is largely utilised by 

 students ; but in a great many others the supply of students is very 

 small. It is to be deplored that there are several schools in which the 

 well-qualified staffs and the excellent equipment practically stand idle 

 in the day-time through lack of students. ' 



III. Secondary Schools for Girls. 



In the case of these schools it was considered desirable to send 

 personal letters, asking for information as to overlapping between 

 the school education and that of universities, &c, to representative 

 secondary schools for girls instead of issuing circulars to all girls' 

 secondary schools. 



In order to determine which schools should be chosen, reference was 

 made to the volume published recently by the Committee appointed by 

 the Headmistresses' Association to report on the curricula of public 

 secondary schools for girls. 



A list is given in that volume of girls' secondary schools ' con- 

 sidered in some ways to be typical of many others and to include every 

 variety of public secondary schools for girls.' 



■ Letters enclosing a list of the questions to which answers were 

 requested were sent, therefore, to these schools and to a few others 

 in addition, and in most cases the required information was obtained. 

 Inquiries were made to elicit information on the following points: — 



1. Number of girls in the school. 



2. Number of girls who at the end of the school year 1909-10 were qualified 

 for entrance into a university. 



3. How many of these girls are still at the school ? 



4. What the above girls are doing. 



5. Opinion re 'overlapping.' 



The total number of girls in attendance at the schools from which 

 information was received was 8,734. In 1910, 410 girls — nearly 5 per 

 cent, of the present number — had passed some examination quali- 

 fying for entrance into a university; and of these girls, 225 — that 

 is, about 56 per cent. — have remained at school after passing the 

 examination. Most of those girls who are now at school and are 



