310 REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE, ETC. 
schools, and a sub-committee, especially charged in regard to propaganda, is in touch 
by correspondence with a large number of ‘ careers’ masters of the larger schools. The 
Council also issues an Empire Settlement Handbook which conveys detailed informa- 
tion, and offers valuable advice to all seeking to know something of the conditions of 
overseas employment. 
10. Boy Scouts Association, 25 Buckingham Palace Road, London, §.W. 1.— 
Within this Association there is a migration department which has definite schemes 
of its own for overseas settlement. Information about these schemes is conveyed to 
every Scout Troop Headquarters in the British Isles by some 10,000 migration wail- 
cards, and these are supplemented by the issue of a booklet, ‘ The Call of the Empire.’ 
Leaflets supplying details of the schemes are also distributed in the same way. During 
the year lectures are given at all the chief centres, and the ‘Scout Magazine’ frequently 
contains illustrated articles on the subject of overseas life and its prospects. Details 
of Scout migration schemes have been broadcasted from Glasgow. 
ll, Interchange of Teachers.—The interchange of teachers between the schools 
of Great Britain and the Dominions affords another avenue through which first-hand 
knowledge of overseas life may reach the pupils. 
The League of the Empire (see Appendix 1 (1), page 317) has been instrumental] in 
establishing a scheme accepted by the Board of Education for the interchange of 
teachers from elementary and secondary schools in this country with those from 
Dominion schools. Although the larger proportion of teachers taking advantage of 
the scheme come from elementary schools, there is a gradually increasing number 
from secondary schools. The small number from the latter is due largely to 
(1) the variations in school terms in different countries ; 
(2) the necessity of exchange being made between teachers possessing 
equivalent qualifications and attainments. 
It is hoped that these difficulties will gradually disappear, and that our secondary 
schools will soon gain the benefit of having teachers on their stafis possessing the 
wider outlook and experience that such interchange affords. 
12. The Overseas Education League (see Appendix 1 (m) page 317) also has ascheme 
for the interchange of teachers, as well as a comprehensive organisation for promoting 
overseas visits of teachers and undergraduates from and to Great Britain and the 
Dominions. 
13. The Anglo-Canadian Education Committee, formed as a result of a tour of 
sixteen headmasters of English public schools to the Canadian Universities in 1930, 
will, no doubt, help to turn the attention of schools in the same direction. 
14. Local Migration Committees and Juvenile Employment Bureaux.—There are 
about forty-eight Local Migration Committees in Great Britain supported by 
voluntary contributions and founded within the last few years in counties and towns 
to promote schemes for training suitable boys—l4 to 18 years of age—for farming 
careers in the oversea Dominions. Few cf these, however, deal with the secondary 
school pupil as such. Many of them work in close association with the juvenile 
employment bureaux of the education authorities, and all of them in conjunction 
with the Oversea Settlement Department. 
In most cases the education authority prefers to leave the subject entirely alone, 
and does not appear to favour any action that suggests even an encouragement of 
emigration on its part. In London, for example, an entirely passive attitude is 
adopted. The Education Department of the L.C.C. willingly permits accredited 
organisations concerned with migration to distribute suitable pamphlets regarding 
emigration, and allows the use of school organisation for lectures on the subject and 
offers facilities for boys and girls to attend them ; otherwise it does not officially take 
any active part in promoting or supporting special steps to assist or advise those who 
wish to take up a career overseas. 
On the other hand, in some towns, such as Bristol and Birmingham, there is a 
greater interest shown by the Education Committee, and in the latter the juvenile 
employment officers attend at all the secondary schools in order to give advice to 
pupils when they leave, and co-operate with the headmaster in supplying necessary 
information to boys interested. 
The only district in which it appears that the question of the migration of the 
secondary school pupil has received definite attention isin the north-east of England. 
There the Secretary of the Northumberland and Durham Empire Settlement Com- 
