POST-WAR EDUCATION

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 8, 9 July 1943, Page 5

POST-WAR EDUCATION

PLANS IN BRITAIN

LONDON, July 8,

Post-war education plans under which the school-leaving age will be raised to 15, with compulsory part-time education between the ages of 15 and 18, will be published next week as a White Paper, says the "Daily Telegraph." The cost of the scheme will be £40,000,000 to £60,000,000 a year. The views of the House of Commons and of local authorities will be sought on the proposals before the Bill is presented in the autumn.

The part-time education between 15 and 18 would place considerable emphasis on technical education, including agricultural training, arid employers would have to release their young workers for attendance, says the "Daily Telegraph." . Other proposals include an extension of the school meals system, settlement of the denominational schools problem, and an extension of nursery schools. The proposals for dealing with the denominational schools include an invitation to the churches to hand over their schools to the local authorities, retaining the right for ministers to enter the schools. Another proposal is that the churches should meet 50 per cent, of the cost qi modernising and reorganising their schools and retain full control.