CANADIAN CHILDREN
LONGER IN SCHOOLS. TORONTO, November 28. A survey of education in Canada issued by the 'Federal Government shows that the proportion of the population over five years of age unable to read and write has been reduced in the past ten years from 10 per cent, to 7.66 per cent., a reducstion of 23.4 per cent, in illiteracy. Every province shares in the improvement, which has been consistent since the beginning of this country when only 82.88 per cent, of the population could read and write.
There are listed in Canada 32,637 educational institutions, with an attendance of 2,542,747 students and 84,208 teachers, and last year they cost £36,000,000 for maintenance. There are shown exceptionally large increases in the number of older pupils, indicating that lack of employment keeps them at school. Actually there has been a ten-year increase of about 20 per cent, in the number of children in Canada of school age as compared to an increase of 25.8 per cent, in the school attendance. This means that the school life of Canadian children has been lengthened considerably and statistics show as well an improvement in regularity of attendance. Provincial grants to schools have increased 246 per cent, in the past 15 years, while total ordinary provincial expenditures have increased by 254 per cent.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19379, 31 December 1932, Page 21
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