EDUCATION BILL
FAVOURABLY RECEIVED IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. London, March 14. Thero was aii animated debate in the . House of Commons on the Government's new Education Bill. Its reception on the whole was favourable. The Minister of Education (Right Hon. H. A. L. Fisher) said that unless the half-time system in Lancashire and Yorkshire were attacked the Education Board could not work the Bill. The hours'' of industrial toil must bo limited during ciementarv school life. The cost of raising the school ago was estimated at one million, and the cost of continuation classes at nearly nino millions, and nursery schools would cost £900,000. In addition to making school attendance compulsory until tho age of fourteen, the Bill providos that those who havo not received whole-time education until the age of sixteen must attend a day continuation school for eight hours weekly until ther are eighteen.
This clause is arousing opposition in the North of England, particularly in Lancashire, where some employers fear that the absence of child labour will seriously interfere with the cotton industry.— Aus.-N.Z. Gable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 152, 16 March 1918, Page 7
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180EDUCATION BILL Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 152, 16 March 1918, Page 7
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