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ORGANISATION OF INDUSTRIAL AND POOR-LAW SCIIOOLS. 301 
The Curricula and Educational Organisation of Industrial and 
Poor-Law Schools.—Report of the Committee, consisting of 
Mr. W. D. Eaaar (Chairman), Mrs. W. N. Saw (Secre- 
tary), Professor R. A. Grecory, Mr. J. L. Hotzanp, Dr. 
C. W. Kimuins, and Mr. J. G. Lace, appointed to inquire 
thereinto, with special reference to Day Industrial Schools. 
In furtherance of the Committee’s recommendation copies of their 
Report of 1912 were sent (by order of the Sectional Committee) to the 
Board of Education, the Home Office, and the Local Government Board. 
The Committee were reappointed to watch for provision being made for 
“adequate reports upon all educational work and training either to 
central or local authorities.’ In the event of no such provision being 
made the Committee were authorised to arrange for a discussion to 
elicit public opinion on the matter. 
In a speech in the House of Commons on July 22 (reported in ‘ The 
Times,’ July 23) the President of the Board of Education asked: ‘ Would 
the House believe him when he said that it was not possible for him, 
as Minister of Education, to say how many Secondary Schools there 
were in this country, or what they were doing? There might be 10,000 
or 15,000; he could not say because he had not the right to ask.’ The 
President might have included in this question Elementary as well as 
Secondary Schools. 
He went on: ‘ They told him that in the County of Middlesex there 
were perhaps several hundreds of schools outside the purview of the 
Board of Education altogether.’ The British Association Report of 
last year shows that this is undoubtedly true of many institutional 
schools throughout the country. To quote the President further, ‘The 
State, having made education compulsory, ought, however, to be in a 
position to give parents some guarantee that the education which their 
children received was not positively harmful to their minds or bodies.’ 
To meet this state of things the Government would propose next 
session ‘ that there should be power to make a comprehensive survey of 
educational institutions of every kind.’ ‘The Board of Education 
would take power to decide what was and what was not education.’ 
Any survey of schools presupposes a knowledge of the existence 
of the schools. It would not appear possible to obtain this knowledge 
without the co-operation of the schools themselves. There are at 
present no lists of schools which are complete for either elementary or 
secondary education. What is required is power to obtain complete 
lists. 
The Committee have therefore arranged for a discussion on the 
“compulsory registration of all schools, public or private, and of all 
institutions giving instruction, technical or general, with the qualifica- 
tions of the teachers.’ 
The Committee have considered the question of registration with a 
local or central authority. The Board of Education appears to be in the 
first instance the appropriate authority. As a Government department 
dealing expressly with educational organisation and requirements for 
the whole country it would appear that the primary need of such a 
