EDUCATION IN FRANCE.
M. Steeg, the reporter on the Budget of Puhlio Instruction, affords (says the Paris correspondent of "Tho. Times") some interesting information, and makes some .very, seasonable observations in his report to the Chamber. He gives figures show the remarkable increase in tho votes for national education since the establishment of the Eepublic. . In 1870 the. total of tho votes for primary, secondary, and higher education was only ,390,000; in .1900 it had rcached .£8,160,000; for tho year 1009 it was. .£10,960,000; and for the year 1910 it will excpcd Ji11,204,000. By far. tho greater proportion of this gigantic vote goes to primary'schools, but during tho last legislative period the annual amount devoted- to higher education was increased by. ,£do,ooo, apart from non-recurring expenditure amounting to about ,£40,000 in all, during a period of four- years for new buildings and appliances. ,During the same legislative poriod the annual votes for secondary education increased by .£IBO,OOO. ■
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 714, 13 January 1910, Page 3
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157EDUCATION IN FRANCE. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 714, 13 January 1910, Page 3
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