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THE eighth annual Conference of Educational Associations was held at University College, London, on December 31–January 10. Three tendencies could be observed in the lengthy list oof lectures and discussions arranged for this well-attended conference: the preparation of the citizen, testing for capacity, and care for the artistic side of life. The Master of Balliol took “The Education of the Citizen” as his topic before the Training College Association, while to the Assistant Mistresses' Association Mr. Evan Hughes lectured on “The Importance of a Wider Knowledge of Economic Principles.” Under this head, too, came a discussion of continuation schools and their possibilities. Sir William Ashley, in presiding at a joint conference on this topic, emphasised the difficulty of forecasting the labour demand of different occupations, and of anticipating the place that skill would occupy within any one industry. Mr. Spurley Hey, Director of Education, Manchester, found his difficulties in the provision oof buildings and teachers, and was critical of works schools; whilst Mr. Beresford Ingram was more distressed by the problem presented by the small employer. The Civic Education League also took up this question in a discussion on education and Industry, which largely turned upon the problem of the works school, and, in conjunction with the Infant Welfare Association, arranged a course of twelve lectures dealing very thoroughly with the whole question of infant care and child nurture.
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Educational Conferences . Nature 104, 513–514 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/104513a0
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