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M this year. The Private Schools Association inserted a notice, supplied 

 on the invitation of the President, in their paper ' Secondary Education ' on 

 February 1. Newnham College, Cambridge, inserted the letter in their journal, 

 the 'Newnham College EolL' The Association of Science Masters put the 

 Committee in touch with the Catholic Social League. 



All the Secretaries promised to bring the subject to the notice of their 

 Committees. 



The Educational Survey. 



The Committee decided not to confine their survey to the United Kingdom, 

 but to include as far as possible notes of educational methods throughout the 

 British Empire; and, for the sake of comparison, to ascertain the latest 

 developments in other countries. For this last purpose they have asked the 

 help of the Education Section of the International Council of Women, which 

 is engaged in a similar investigation. The response to the inquiry instituted 

 by the International Council is not due in this country before the meeting of 

 the British Association in August ; and replies to the Committee's letters 

 addressed to Japan and China have not yet been received. It is therefore not 

 possible to present a report of the survey to the meeting in August 1920, and this 

 must be postponed to 1921. The Section should, however, be in possession of 

 some account of the action taken by the Committee to ensure complete informa- 

 tion for the final report. 



In Canada in 1917 a movement "was started at Winnipeg ' for a National 

 Conference to consider the bearing of Canadian Education on Character 

 and Citizenship.' After a considerable amount of preparatory work, money 

 was raised and the Conference was fixed for October 1919. This 

 Conference was attended by about 1,500 accredited delegates of public 

 offices, the aim being to e-ather business men and educators in one great 

 no^semb'y to secure the creation of a permanent body for study of the question. 

 The Committee have received a verbatim report of this Conference, the 

 attendance at each session of which was never less than 2,000 persons, and on 

 one evening rose to 5,000. The repoi-t says ' the distinctive features of the 

 gathering were its diversified representative character, the combination of 

 citizens as .such pnd professional educators, and the spirit of lofty ideality in 

 the interests of the nation that animated all.' The outcome was the creation 

 of a National Council of fifty members, thirty-six to be elected from the various 

 provinces by the Conference itself, and fourteen to be elected by the Council 

 as so far constitiited. This Council met in February of this year, and the 

 report of their proceedings has been supplied to this Committee. Inquiry has 

 now been made of four ■nrominent men whose names were supplied hy Professor 

 Macallum, of Toronto University, asking what effect, if any, has been pro- 

 duced in the schools or in any way, and also asking for information as to the 

 traininof p-iven in the schools. The Committee hope some similar action may 

 be taken in the Mother Country. 



A list of voluntary agencies for dealing with Civic Education in the United 

 Kingdom is being compiled. Meanwhile the Committee have obtained narticulars 

 of methods of work from the National Federation of Teachers, the Schools 

 Personal Service Association, the Citizenship Studies Association, the Union of 

 Educational Institutions, the Union of Lancashire and Cheshire Institutes, the 

 Workers' Educational Union, the Catholic Social League, the Civic and Moral 

 Education League, the Federation of Women's Institutes, and the Cavendish 

 Association. A circular letter has been sent to thirty-six head-masters and 

 sixteen head-mistresses of public schools, to two mixed schools and to two private 

 schools. The answers received will be considered in next year's report. 



Application was made some years ago bv a Committee of Section L to the 

 Board of Education for lists of private and of charitable schools, and County 

 Directors have now been asked for lists of such schools in their respective areas, 

 but neither the Board of Education nor the local education authorities keep 

 such records. Further efforts will be made to obtain the necessary data to 

 complete this part of the survey. 



From the Board of Educqtion +hp Committee have received rooiet; of 'Su?- 

 gestions for the consideration of Teachers and others conceri^ed jn the work of 



