The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORTED THE EGMONT SETTLER. SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1913. EDUCATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11, 17 May 1913, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORTED THE EGMONT SETTLER. SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1913. EDUCATION.

Hie education problem is exercising tbe minus of thinkers and economists in all parts ol the Empire. .Recent 11 ow developments both at Home and m Australia and India have been made, especially with regard to commercial and industrial training and technical work. In Australia, it is interesting to learn, the chief feature seems to be the provision of complete courses of commercial and industrial training, available free of j cost to children in attendance at high [ schools up to fourteen years of age, I 11 ll d at an annual lee ol £6 for those over that age. The Education Department has prepared a special four years’ course, which is to bo brought into operation in district high schools, agricultural high schools, and higher elementary schools. For the first two years all pupils will have to follow a uniform course of instruction, but alter that they will have the choice of pursuing any of the courses in commercial or business training, industrial training, general higher education, and the domestic arts. In India the Government have accepted the highly important principle that illiteracy. must be broken down, and that primary education has a predominant claim on public funds. Their immediate object is to. double the 1)1 ,()<)()* primary schools which now exist, and the four and a half million pupils receiving instruction in them. Provision is also to he made for higher instruction and research, so that Indian students may have every facility

for higher training without going abroad. The .scheme for higher education includes the establishment of new universities at Rangoon, Nagpur,

and Patna, while the general plan s to secure a separate university for nidi of the leading provinces, and lieu to create new local and tending universities within each of the wovinces, in harmony with the best