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WHEN the time comes for the discussion of the new Technical Instruction Bill, attention will no doubt be given to an important series of resolutions (printed on the next page) which have just been passed by the Executive Committee of the North of England Branch of the National Association for the Promotion of Technical Education. The first six of these resolutions were unanimously adopted by the Committee, and the seventh was, on the motion of Mr. T. Burt, M.P., seconded by Mr. J. H. Girling (President of the Trades Council), adopted with one dissentient. The following are the advantages which the Committee desire to secure:—(1) For primary and secondary education a greater freedom of instruction under the existing code preparatory to technical education in the higher schools. (2) A direct or indirect pecuniary aid for superior education in science and art schools and in Colleges which afford technical education. (3) For all apprenticeship schools or trade classes a supervision by members of the trade, but no Government grant, thus to avoid any objections which might be raised by Trades Unions, or any jealousy arising from an apparent protection of one or more particular trades. (4) For University Colleges a grant similar to that made to training Colleges for education afforded to persons intending to become teachers.
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Technical Education . Nature 37, 374–375 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/037374a0
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