THE ENGLISH EDUCATION AOT.

Press, Volume XXXI, Issue 4288, 28 April 1879, Page 3

THE ENGLISH EDUCATION AOT.

The "Daily News" of the 21st January says: —Lord Sandon'e Education Act of 1876 arrived at another stage *in its progreisive application at the beginning of the present year. The principle of the Act, which will come into full operation in 1881, is that no child between the ages of ten and fourteen is to be employed in any labour unless he has passed an examination in the Fourth Standard, or has attended school 250 times yearly for five years since he was five years old, o* has satisfied the requirements of any educational by-laws which may be in force in bis parish. During the year 1879 this rule will be modified, and a child of ten may be sent to work if he has passed an examination ia the. Third Standard, or has been to school 250 times in each of any three years since Ma fifth { I birthday. The requirements of the Third Standard are not eserous. They, '.consist in reading short paragraphs from, an advanced, but still elementary; reading* book, writing a sentence uowly, dictated from the same book, and working sums in long drrieion, compound addition and §übtraction, including pound*, shillings, and pence. Labor certificates will therefore, during this year, be granted to ahUdren ton years old who nave fulfilled the§e conditions. The exemption still remains in force that any dbild lawfully at work on o* before the 15th August, 1876, may continue 'at work as though fiie Act had not been passed; wofle all children who were eleven years old before the Ist of January, 1877, are practically outside its operation this year. For the purpose of facilitating the issue of these labour certificates the managers of erexy school must eend to the School Board or the School Committee of Ha district a list of aE the children in the eehool and the number of atterdaneee each child hae made, during Ibif ear, except tmh as may hare been mscU

I y?al. ffi o!i^ I? it-*wirb7inl terestingto the public to know in'the'next edueatipn report Jiow Jar these returns .are iiiaaer ? an ! ihow;fii£se ialwrle«rt£ScSt«V'«»i: tinue to work.