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Village Institutes. 



[may. 



week-end lecture schools, but tutorial schools and " summer " 

 schools might occasionally make their headquarters in a rural 

 district, to the mutual advantage of both town and rural 

 students. 



Appointment of Educational Officers.— With the development 

 of the work in rural areas it would become necessary to 

 appoint resident organisers for the purpose of opening up new 

 centres and carrying on the administrative work without which 

 the various villages cannot be linked together. These organisers 

 should be fully conversant with country life and rural needs, 

 and, in view of the difficulty of obtaining teachers and lecturers, 

 it would be advisable that they should be able to take part 

 themselves, as far as circumstances allowed, in teaching work. 

 The Committee does not, however, look upon this as a satis- 

 factory solution. It considers that, just as in the case of towns, 

 the development of a system of resident tutors and the decen- 

 tralisation of university extra-mural education is desirable, 

 and it therefore regards the gradual establishment of resident 

 tutors and lecturers in rural areas as a necessary part of the 

 general scheme of rural education. 



