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AN interesting and important Departmental Report upon the above subject was published on October 25 by the Board of Education. The inquiry was begun a year ago at the instance of Mr. H. A. L. Fisher, President of the Board, and the Committee appointed was comprised of representatives of the Board, of the local education authorities, of persons engaged in elementary and secondary schools, and of others interested in the question. Some sixty-six individual witnesses were examined, including officers of the Board of Education and of local authorities, as well as teachers and others, representing in all thirty organisations wholly or partly concerned with education. The Committee was directed to inquire into the existing arrangements for the award by local authorities of scholarships tenable at secondary schools or institutions of higher education other than universities or institutions for the training of teachers, and into the provision of free places under the regulations of the Board of Education, and to, make recommendations thereon with respect to the improvement of such arrangements so as to bring the facilities of higher education within the reach of all classes of the population and with special regard to the migration of pupils from one school area to another.
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Scholarships and Free Places in Secondary Schools1. Nature 106, 421 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106421a0
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