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intend to go work for the Intermediate Examination or follow a corre- 
sponding course. There is general agreement that a girl ought not to go 
to a university before the age of eighteen, and also that it is a great 
advantage for a girl, from the point of view of health and the avoidance 
of overstrain, to have done part of the work for her degree course 
while still at school, even though the work may be done in a some- 
what different manner and from a different point of view. ‘The 
students all state that though the work has already been taken here 
(a large northern school), it was taken in such a different way and 
with so much more detail that no disadvantage has been felt.’ 
One or two girls’ schools which work in close association with 
newer universities make it a definite aim that a girl going to the 
university shall huve at least one year’s further work at school between 
the passing of the Matriculation Examination and going into residence. 
The overlapping in the case of girls’ schools is of the same nature 
as that in boys’ schools, and, on the whole, would seem to be more 
frequent. Head-mistresses are, however, even more emphatic than 
head-masters as to the advantage of the overlapping, and they lay 
stress on the greater danger of overstrain in the case of girls. 
It is noteworthy that many head-mistresses are in favour of raising 
the minimum age for matriculation by girls to seventeen, and several 
consider even eighteen too early an age, as a rule, for a girl to enter 
a university. 
Girts’ ScHoouts IN ADMINISTRATIVE COUNTIES. 
In the smaller girls’ secondary schools those who stay beyond the 
matriculation stage are as a rule bursars, or pupil teachers, or girls 
who intend to enter the teaching profession in some way. Here, also, 
we meet with the same general opinions and practice—i.e., that if a 
girl intends to enter a day training college attached to a university, 
with the view of following a degree course, a year’s work of prepa- 
ration at school should follow the passing of the Matriculation Exam- 
ination. | 
The additional year does not, however, seem to be regarded as 
necessary for bursars who wish to go to an ordinary training college, 
although some bursars will pass the necessary qualifying examination 
some time before the termination of the bursary. 
SrconpDaRy ScHOOLS AND TRAINING COLLEGES. 
In several cases it is represented that the work of the ordinary 
training college for elementary school teachers overlaps the work of 
the secondary schools. It is stated that pupils who have been for 
several years at a secondary school and have passed a Matriculation 
Examination, possibly one or two years before they enter the training 
college, have practically to mark time during their first year at the- 
college, with the courses as now arranged. It is represented that at 
present the colleges do not make sufficient allowance for a school 
education which is considerably in advance of that received by many 
of the students who enter the colleges. The present courses require 
modification if they are to meet the needs of this class of pupil, 
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