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On Technical Education . 
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has lately arranged to carry on a similar scheme. I am un- 
able to state the amount that is yearly expended by the two 
Universities on these different educational projects. 
The City and Guilds of London Institute has been esta- 
blished for the advancement of Technical Education ; the 
Institute has been in existence about four years, and its 
Committee expended on the department of education it has 
been created to promote, in two years ending the 20th 
February, 1880, £25,205 175. id. They intend to expend on 
the building alone of a Technical University, at South Ken- 
sington, £50,000 ; the site has been given by the Commis- 
sioners of the Exhibition of 1851. The Committee of the 
Institute are also expending, on a University building at 
Finsbury, £50,000, and an additional sum of £5000 on 
laboratory extension at their Middle Class School in Cowper 
Street. 
We referred in the article in the March number to the 
recent appointment of a Royal Commission to inquire into 
the methods adopted in Germany, France, and other conti- 
nental countries, for imparting Technical instruction : since 
that appointment was made Mr. T. Armstrong and Mr. H. 
Bowler — the Director and Assistant-DireCtor for Art of the 
Science and Art Department— have been instructed by the 
Lords of the Committee of Council on Education to visit 
the Art Schools of Germany and the Industrial Exhibition 
at Nuremberg, and to prepare a Report on German Art- 
teaching. And the Royal Commission on Technical Instruc- 
tion have appointed Mr. H. M. Jenkins, the Secretary of the 
Royal Agricultural Society, to a 61 as their Sub-Commis- 
sioner, to inquire and report on the present state of agricul- 
tural education and the courses of instruction given in 
agriculture at schools and colleges in Denmark, Holland, 
Belgium, France, and Germany, and they have also com- 
missioned him to report on the present position of agricul- 
tural education in England. And not many years have gone 
by since our Consuls at the different continental countries 
were ordered by the Government of the day to draw up 
Reports, which were afterwards published in the form of 
Blue Books, on the systems of Technical instruction carried 
out in the different countries to which they were attached. 
In addition to all the information on the state of modern 
education in foreign countries which has been obtained and 
published at the expense of the nation, very valuable con- 
tributions on the same subject have been published by private 
individuals at their own cost. 
Along with the vast mass of evidence that has been al- 
