EDUCATION REFORM.
BILL BEFOKE COMMONS. CONTINUATION SCHOOLS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON, August it. In the House of Commons Mr H. A. L. Fisher introduced the Education Bill for England and Wales. He said that ho adhered to the administrative groundwork of the 1902 Act. He in< tended to give every child unimpeded school life up to the age of fourteen ( nono being permitted to be employed for profit, tinder twelve years. The Bill was intended to develop the higher fo rras of education and improve tha physical condition of children. A novo! provision was that every child, when no longer obliged to attend elementary schools, should attend con. tinuance schools, receiving full-tim« education up to sixteen years and part time to eighteen. The part-time would bo taken from the employer's time and "'onld be given in the day time. The life of the rising generation could only be protected against injurious effects of industrial pressure by a furthei measure of State compulsion.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12084, 13 August 1917, Page 4
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162EDUCATION REFORM. Star (Christchurch), Issue 12084, 13 August 1917, Page 4
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