THE EDUCATION REPORT.

Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue 119, 15 November 1902, Page 5 (Supplement)

THE EDUCATION REPORT.

The Annual Report of the Board of Education just published contains many features of importance and interest at the present time. The number of Boardschools in existence on 31st August, 1901, was 5797, with an accommodation for 2.881,155 children. The number of voluntary schools in existence on the | same date was 14,319, with accommodation for 3.729,261. The voluntary schools thus have accommodation for 848,106 children in excess of the accommodation offered by the Board-schools. "In Board-schools the grant earned by each scholar in actual average attendance was £1 Is B^d, showing an increase for the year of 3d ; and in voluntary schools the giant was £1 Is 2Jd, showing an increase of 6d." Thus each ..scholar last year earned in grants sid

more than each voluntary-school scholar, while at the same rate of increase the voluntary-school scholar in two years will be id to the good. The cost of"maintenance" has risen in both cases. . "For the year 1901 it was in Board- " schools £3 0s 2d per child in average attendance, an increase of 2s 6£d for the year ; and in voluntary schools £2 6s B£d, an increase of 4d." The rates have, therefore, supplied the School Boards with an additional £376,259 for maintenance, while for the same purpose the voluntary schools have secured £32,921 additional subscriptions. It is interesting to learn that "the voluntary contributions to schools connected with the National Society or Church of England are actually higher than they have ever been -before."