EDUCATION AT HOME
BILL INTRODUCING REFORMS. (By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, August 11. Received August 12, 5.5 p.m. In the House of Commons, the Rt. Hon. W. H. Fisher introduced the Education Bill of England and Wales. He said it adhered to the administrative groundwork of 1902, and was intended to give every child an unimpeded school life up to the age of fourteen. None would be employed for profit under the age of twelve. The Bill aimed at developing the higher forms of education, and improving the physical condition of the children. A novel provision was that every' child would no longer be obliged to attend elementary schools should they attend continuance schools, reeeiving full time education up to sixteen years, and part time to eighteen, the latter time being taken from the employers’• time, and being given in daytime. He said that the life of the rising generation could only be protected against the injurious effects of industrial pressure by a further measure of State compulsion.
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Southland Times, Issue 17735, 13 August 1917, Page 5
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173EDUCATION AT HOME Southland Times, Issue 17735, 13 August 1917, Page 5
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