LEAVING AGE RAISED.
EDUCATION IN BRITAIN. INCREASE IN SCHOLARSHIPS. (United Press Association— Copyright* LONDON, January 7. Big administrative changes, made necessary by the Government’s coming Bill for raising the school leaving age to 15 years and improving the education system, are announced. They include: — (1) The reorganisation of elementary schools to provide the extra accomodation required, to remedy defective premises, and to reduce the size of the clhssgs. (2) An increase from 300 to 360 in the number of State Scholarships from secondary'schools to university, and an increase in the value of each scholarship from £BO a year to a figure not yet fixed. This will mean, on the basis of an average course of three years, that there will always be 1000 Statesupported under-graduates at universal Better provision for technical and art education.—British Official Wireless.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 74, 9 January 1936, Page 5
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