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THE fiftieth annual meeting of the National Union of Teachers, founded in 1870, at which some 2000 delegates were present, representing a membership of 113,000 as compared with 400 on its formation, was held during Easter week at Margate. The proceedings were opened by a well-timed and thoughtful address on the part of the new president, Miss J. F. Wood, of the Fielden School, Manchester (herself a pioneer in the endeavour to bring opportunities of advanced secondary education within the reach of children leaving school during their fourteenth or fifteenth year), in which she reviewed the history of popular education since the Act of 1870, recounting its onward progress and making clear the objects still to be achieved, to ensure which all the various classes of teachers should make a common effort and present a united front. The Act of 1918, with which the name of Mr. Fisher will be linked in honour for all time, provides for fuller opportunities of education for elder children in elementary schools, for their easier transfer to higher schools by means of maintenance grants, for closer attention to conditions of physical health, and education, and especially for the continued part-time education up to eighteen years of age of adolescents entering industrial life at fourteen.
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National education. Nature 105, 213–214 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/105213b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/105213b0