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THE public sessions of the first conference of delegates summoned by the British Government to represent the Overseas Dominions were held in London on four afternoons, April 25-28. The President of the Board of Education welcomed the representatives, and presided at each meeting. Administrative problems were, it is believed, discussed at the morning sessions, to which only the official delegates were invited. The proceedings at these morning meetings were private, the conference agreeing at its first meeting that, in order not to hamper discussion, no report should be made until the close of the conference, when an official summary will be issued. At the time of writing, all that can be said with certainty is that the private sessions are being prolonged into the week following the public meetings. Admission to the afternoon discussions was by tickets issued to representative administrators and teachers. The attendance of the overseas delegates in the afternoons was not large. The programme drawn up by the Board of Education included papers on the teaching of geography, history and arithmetic, manual work, the organisation of secondary education in Scotland, engineering, and vocational education. All the papers were by well-known British workers in the educational field.
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D., G. The Imperial Education Conference . Nature 86, 323–325 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/086323a0
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