BOARD OF AGRICULTURE 



Vol. XVIII. No. II. 



FEBRUARY, 1912. 



AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION IN ENGLAND AND 



WALES. 



The following memorandum of revised arrangements 

 between the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries and the Board 

 of Education in regard to agricultural education in England 

 and Wales, has recently been issued. [Cd. 6039, price Jd.] 



We have had under consideration the arrangements for the 

 promotion of agricultural education made by our predecessors 

 as Presidents of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries and 

 the Board of Education, and published in the memorandum 

 [Cd. 4886] of the 22nd of September, 1909; * and have come 

 to the conclusion that, in view of the large additional sums 

 which have become available since 1909 for the purposes of 

 agricultural education and research under the Development 

 and Road Improvement Funds Act, 1909, those arrangements 

 now require some modification. It no longer appears possible 

 to delimit the spheres of work of our two Boards 

 by assigning to the Board of Agriculture the responsi- 

 bility for the Universities and Colleges in which ad- 

 vanced work is being done, and to the Board of Education 

 the responsibility for Farm Schools and such other provision 

 for agricultural education as is on a lower plane than that of 

 Agricultural Colleges. It has, therefore, been decided that, 

 in future, the responsibility for Farm Institutes, as well as for 

 the agricultural work of Universities and Colleges, shall be 

 transferred to the Board of Agriculture, and that this Board 

 shall be regarded as the Government Department concerned 

 with this branch of educational work for the purposes of the 

 Development Fund. The application for an advance from 



* Journal, Oct., 1909, p. 529. 



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