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and the modification should take the direction of less academic 
work and much larger opportunities for practical training in profes- 
sional work. It may be stated in this connection that a modified course 
of this kind has been in operation very successfully for three or four 
years in the women’s department of the day training college at 
Bristol. 
SreconpARY SCHOOLS AND TECHNICAL INSTITUTES. 
In a few cases it is stated that the technical institutions do work 
which ought to be done at secondary schools, but this complaint is not 
frequent. Technical schools necessarily cater for students: who for 
various reasons may not have been able to have a full secondary 
school course, but the absence of any general complaint from town 
secondary schools would seem to indicate that the local education 
authorities have not been unmindful of the necessity for proper 
co-ordination of the technical institute with the schools. 
General Suggestions received.—Many of our correspondents express 
very strongly the view that the mere fact that a pupil has passed a 
Matriculation Examination or has reached a standard of knowledge 
equivalent to the beginning of university work is not of itself satis- 
factory evidence that he can take up residence at a university with 
advantage. They consider that ‘ overlapping ’ cannot be defined solely 
on the basis of mental attainments, whether determined by examination 
or by the course of work that has been followed. The proper time for 
a boy to pass from the school to the university is a question of the 
state of development of his general as well as his intellectual 
faculties. 
While there is no general desire to raise the minimum age for 
the Matriculation Examination, it is suggested from several quarters 
that there should be a lower and a higher Matriculation Examination 
which would also serve the general purpose of Leaving Examinations, 
the lower examination being suitable for pupils of sixteen to seventeen, 
of much the same standard as at present, while the higher examination, 
suitable for pupils of eighteen to nineteen, would be of a higher 
standard and possibly with fewer subjects, and should be accepted as 
qualifying a candidate to follow a course for an honours degree 
without any further Intermediate Exarnination. 
GENERAL CoNCLUSIONS. 
The evidence placed before the Committee shows that a certain 
amount of overlapping does, in fact, exist between the work of secon- 
dary schools and that of universities and other places of higher education. 
Although individual opinions differ, this overlapping is not generaliy 
deplored by representatives either of schools or universities. Head- 
masters, and especially head-mistresses, are of opinion that a pupil may 
with advantage remain at school for a year or more after passing the 
present matriculation examination, or reaching an equivalent standard ; 
and this extension of the school course is regarded by them as particu- 
larly valuable for students who intend to prepare at the university for an 
honours degree. Some head-mistresses consider that to go over the 
