OVERLAPPING BETWEEN SECONDARY AND OTHER EDUCATION. 339 
University of London. 
Total No. of No. of Candidates 
Bxams. Candidates during giving a School as 
B.A. Academic year 1909. place of preparation. 
(1) Intermediate 868 216 
(2) Final : . F 345 iT 
B.Sc. 
(1) Intermediate . : 807 257 
(2) Final - e R 408 8 
University of Oxford—1910. 
Higher Local ° 328 212 
University of Cambridge—1910. 
Higher Local F 3 1,120 509 
The general result is, therefore, that about twenty-eight per cent. 
of the London Intermediate candidates are prepared at school, about 
fifty per cent. of the Cambridge Higher Local candidates, and about 
sixty-six per cent. of those taking the Oxford Higher Local 
examinations. 
SECONDARY ScHooLts RecoGNISED BY THE BoarD oF EDUCATION. 
The inquiry concerning schools of this group was conducted by 
means of a printed form of questions, between 600 and 700 copies of 
which were issued to the chief education officers of administrative 
counties and county boroughs, by whom they were distributed to the 
schools within their respective areas. The Committee is greatly 
indebted to these officers for the interest they showed in the inquiry 
and the trouble they took to get the desired information. Without 
their help it would have been practically impossible to make anything 
but an imperfect survey, whereas complete returns were received from 
several administrative areas, and in some cases the education officer 
furnished useful information derived from his official experience. 
Thanks are also due to the head-teachers who took trouble in filling 
up the forms; in many cases they also added further particulars or 
gave valuable opinions. 
Altogether 292 forms were received, and they came from 177 
boys’ schools in administrative counties, 29 boys’ schools in county 
boroughs, 67 girls’ schools in administrative counties, and 19 girls’ 
schools in county boroughs. 
It is difficult to frame a definition of overlapping which would be 
generally applicable, but for the purpose of this inquiry the passing of 
a university matriculation examination, or its equivalent, was adopted 
as the boundary line. Head-teachers were asked (1) whether in their 
opinion there is overlapping between the work done in secondary 
schools and that done in universities or other places of higher educa- 
tion; (2) how many pupils in the particular school had during the last 
three years passed a matriculation examination and read for a further 
university examination whilst still at school, or, without taking a 
definite course, had remained at school for a substantial period after 
passing the said examination. Information was asked for in respect 
of ordinary pupils, and also in respect of Board of Education bursars 
and pupil-teachers, whose presence has introduced a new feature into 
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