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ANALES DE LA SOCIEDAD CIENTÍFICA ARGENTINA 



EDÜCATION AND WAE 



EDUCATION IN THE UNITED KINGDOM 



The raain eft'ect of tbe war in education in the United Kingdom is 

 the great reduction in number of students in the universities being 

 as high as 40 per cent as shown in table 3 for the year 1914-15. Had 

 there been no war. there probably would have been an increase in the 

 number of stndents, and had it been as much as in the previous year 

 to the war, the real eífect of the war negatively, as well as positively, 

 raight be indicated by adding 23 per cent the increase for 1913-14 to 

 40 per cent, the decrease for 1914-15. 



TABLE 3. — Education in the United Kingdom ' 

 [Per cent of increase (-j-) or decrease ( — )| 



In Germany - the number of nniversity students in the winter se- 

 mester of 1913-14 was 64.506, an increase of 4 per cent over the 

 preceding year. For the winter semester 1914-15, war time, the num- 

 ber was only 21.361, maliing a decrease of 66 por cent. All women 

 students were omitted in the summary. 



Table 4 shows that in Scotland the average attendance at the pri- 

 mary schools decreased very little (0.38 per cent) in 1915, infactthe 

 decrease is less than in 1913 (0.64 per cent), when there was no war. 

 Also, the average attendance at the higher grade schools increased 

 in 1915, as well as in 1913 and 1914. Scotland and Ireland togehter 



' Statesman' s Year Book, 1916. 



^ Statistisches Jahriuch für das Deutsche Reich. 1914 and 1915. 



