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Design, together with literary and pedagogic subjects. In the Junior Art Depart- 
ments, which provide general as well as Art Education, pupils may not remain beyond 
the age of 16. The pupils generally enter from the elementary schools, and the 
institutions are controlled by Local Education Authorities and receive both State and 
rate aid. Full particulars are contained in Board of Education List 111. This list 
contains also particulars of the six Schools of Nautical Training which provide full- 
time education, generally for two years, for pupils from elementary schools in 
preparation for employment at sea. 
8. Farm Institutes. 
The main purpose of a Farm Institute Course is to provide instruction in the 
scientific principles underlying sound practice. Most of the courses start in October 
and the full agricultural course generally covers two terms, one before Christmas and 
one after. In addition there are full courses in Dairying, Poultry-keeping, General 
Horticulture, &c., and also short courses in special subjects. The Institutes are 
maintained by County Councils, and the fees payable by residents in the County vary 
from £1 to £1 15s. 0d. a week for board, lodging and tuition. For students from other 
counties the fees are higher. A limited number of scholarships are awarded. For 
full details of the courses, see Form 732/TE and Leaflet No. 197 published by the 
Ministry of Agriculture. 
GiRLs’ SCHOOLS. 
Broadly, speaking, the same general types of secondary school are available for 
girls as for boys. The term ‘ public’ as applied to girls’ secondary schools is wider 
than it is in the case of boys’ schools and is generally taken to mean a school which is 
controlled by a Governing Body as distinct from one run for private profit. There 
is no body corresponding to the Headmasters’ Conference, and Public Secondary 
Schools for Girls include boarding schools and day schools controlled by independent 
authorities, grammar and endowed schools, and schools maintained and aided by 
Local Education Authorities. 
1. Public Schools. 
The girls’ schools which correspond to the large boys’ Public Schools are much 
fewer in number and of much more recent origin. The oldest of them date from the 
latter half of the nineteenth century and were organised on the model of the boys’ 
Public Schools, with their house system and prefects and games. One main difference 
is that they take pupils from an earlier age and most of them have junior departments 
and kindergartens, thus making a separate class of Preparatory Schools unnecessary. 
_ The fees are little below those charged in boys’ Public Schools. 
Many of the independent schools are combined boarding and day schools, e.g. 
some of those controlled by the Girls’ Public Day School Trust. The fees for day 
pupils vary between £10 and £40 a year, with a few as high as £60: and for boarders 
from £60 to £150 a year. 
2. Grammar and Endowed Schools. 
What was said about the Grammar and Endowed Schools for boys applies also to 
those for girls. 
3. County and Municipal Schools. 
With few exceptions, and those are where existing schools have been taken over 
by a local authority, these schools are day schools. Some are entirely free, and the 
fees in the others range from £10 to £20 a year. Pupils who live outside the area of 
_ the Local Education Authority which maintains the school are charged higher fees, 
in some cases £39 a year. 
There are also a few Welsh Intermediate Schools for Girls. - 
A list of schools of all these types, with particulars of the more important of them, 
is given in the ‘ Girls’ School Year Book,’ the official book of reference of the Association 
of Headmistresses. Those which have submitted to Board of Education inspection 
are in List 60. 
4. Private Schools. 
Their name is legion and they are of all varieties, ranging from those which are 
conducted on Public School lines, many of which are in List 60, to those which 
apparently give no education at all. Particulars of a number of the more reputable 
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