106 SCIENTIFIC SURVEY OF NORWICH AND DISTRICT 
building, combining modern standards of accommodation with adapta- 
bility to changing conditions and new needs. In line with this is the 
provision of Nursery accommodation ; while commercial classes in 
secondary schools and extension of science and biology teaching in the 
senior schools are part of the same determination to keep abreast of present 
practice and to anticipate future needs. 
Paradoxically, the present-day tendency towards specialisation makes it 
imperative that there shall be a fully comprehensive educational system 
with carefully planned and diversified types of education to meet the great 
variety of needs. In the field of elementary education, the realisation of 
this led to the rapid implementing of the Hadow Report, with the grati- 
fying result that Norwich was one of the first cities to complete re- 
organisation into infant, primary and senior departments. The needs 
of the new housing estates, too, have been met by many schools already 
built, and fresh estates now being developed have had their educational 
needs anticipated by the purchase of suitable sites for schools and playing 
fields. For these reorganised schools, old and new, extended facilities 
for science, handicrafts and domestic subjects are in course of provision. 
Extensive provision has been made for higher education, in the City 
of Norwich School for 600 boys, and in the Blyth Secondary School for 
530 girls. The first, built in 1910, is a fine building with large playing 
fields, while the second, opened in 1929, is a modern school on open-air 
lines. In addition, there are three grant-aided, non-maintained schools— 
the King Edward VI Grammar School with some 250 boys in attendance, 
the Norwich High School for Girls with 345 girls, and the Notre Dame 
High School for Girls with 380, the two last having, during recent years, 
removed to new premises. Bracondale School, recognised by the Board 
of Education but not grant-aided, and several other private schools, offer 
further provision for higher education. Pupils from the secondary schools 
are enabled, by means of State and open scholarships and exhibitions, 
with grants or loans from the Norwich Authority, to pass on to college or 
university ; and an interesting and valued feature of the educational life 
of the city is the number of endowments, the chief of which are the Town 
Close Trust, the Anguish Trust and the Joanna Scott Trust, which assist 
children to attend the secondary schools and universities. 
Nor has the technical side of education been neglected; and this 
provision represents the work of the Education Committee in developing 
the points of contact between the general educational system and the 
needs of industry and commerce. Thus, at the Technical College, the 
needs of the boot and shoe and engineering industries, as befits their 
importance locally, have been specially considered, and there are depart- 
ments also for printing, architecture and building, and for science and 
domestic subjects. The college is approved by the University of London 
for the preparation of students for the degree of B.Sc. in engineering ; 
and other examinations of a similarly high standard are taken in other 
subjects. Advisory committees have been formed in the various depart- 
ments, and as on these there serve representatives of employers, foremen 
and men, as well as of the Education Authority, close co-operation is 
maintained with the industries of the city ; and by means of the Junior 
