Page 16. Operation of Article 19 A. (1), and B. 3; and Article 21 (a), Code of 1898, and Articles 19 B., 6 and 7, and Article 21 (i), Code of 1899 in Highland Counties, arranged denominationally 17. Operation of Article 19 D. and E. 18. Results of Examination in regard to Class Subjects, Article 19 C., 20. Examination and Results of Examination of Blind or Deaf-mute 21. Income and Expenditure of Inspected Day Schools 22. Annual Grants.-Amounts Claimed, Deductions, and Amounts Granted, Codes of 1898 and 1899 23. Abstracts of Income and Expenditure of Schools inspected for the last 31. Income and Expenditure of Inspected Higher Grade Schools 32. Amounts Claimed, Deductions from Grants, and Amounts granted 1. T. A. Stewart, Esq., LL.D., on the Southern Division 481 TABLES. Page 1. Summary, showing Original Cost of Buildings, towards which Grants were made by the Committee of Council on Education; Receipts and 3. Table showing the Income and Expenditure of Training Colleges for 1900 4. Table showing Average Cost per Student at each Training College in 5. List of Grants paid to Local Committees (Article 91a) - 5 (a) List of Grants paid to Local Authorities (Article 91 (d) ) 6. Summary of Results of Examination of Candidates for Admission, and for the Office of Teacher, December 1900 7. Summary of Results of Examination of Queen's Students (Article 96) 8. Summary of Results of Examination of Students in Training Colleges, 9-12. Tabulated Results of Examination of Students, July, 1900 - 13 & 14. Results of Examination in Science of Training College Students 643 Syllabus of Subjects of Examination for Certificates, July 1901 - · 659 List (under Counties and School Board Districts) of Schools aided from the Ad litional Grants paid to School Boards List of Science and Art Classes, showing the number of Students under instruction, prizes obtained during the Session 1899-1900, grants paid, 733 THE REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL ON EDUCATION IN SCOTLAND TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL, For the Year 1900-01. MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MAJESTY, WE, the Lords of the Committee of Your Majesty's Privy Day schools, Council on Education in Scotland, humbly submit to Your Majesty this the Twenty-eighth Annual Report of our proceedings under the Education (Scotland) Act, 1872. SUMMARY OF STATISTICS RELATING TO SCHOOLS UNDER During the year ended 30th September 1900, the estimated increase of population for the year was 8 per cent., and the number of scholars on the registers of schools under inspection has increased by 2 per cent., with an increase of 127 in the average attendance. The following table shows the figures in a form which will enable them to be easily compared with the corresponding statistics of the three preceding years: Higher Grade Schools under Inspection. Resources for Maintenance of Education al System. Of the 756,558 scholars on the register 719,660 were children of school age (5-14,; 157,011 were under 7 years of age (infants); 526,449 between 7 and 13; 52,266 between 13 and 14; 14,329 between 14 and 15; and 6,493 above 15. Of the same scholars, 629,038 were, on an average, in daily attendance throughout the year. In the average attendance given in the foregoing tables there is included that not only in the ordinary day schools, but also in 31 Higher Grade Schools or Departments, having on the registers the names of 3,271 scholars, of whom 177 are under thirteen; 827 are between thirteen and fourteen ; 1,113 are between fourteen and fifteen; 754 are between fifteen and sixteen; 272 are between sixteen and seventeen, and 118 are over seventeen. The average number of scholars in attendance in these schools during the past year was 2,949. In the Higher Grade Schools or Departments, payments were made under Article 142 of the Code in respect of an average attendance of 1,162 (787 boys and 375 girls) in the Science Course; of 1,143 (354 boys and 789 girls) in the Commercial Course; and of 256 (65 boys and 191 girls) in Girls' or other Courses. In 13 schools the instruction was limited to one Course; in 12, two Courses were taken; and in 2, there were three Courses. There were 1,606 scholars in the first year's stage of the various Courses, 604 in the second, and 351 beyond the second. In the Science Course, 69 scholars, and in the Commercial Course 206 scholars, were paid for at the higher Fate on account of exceptional efficiency. Under Article 143 payments were made for attendance in Higher Class Schools at a course of lessons in Experimental Science, Manual Instruction, Cookery, Laundry Work, Dressmaking, and Household Economy. The resources upon which our educational system is maintained may be classified as local and imperial, the local contributions consisting chiefly of voluntary subscriptions and rates. Of these, the voluntary subscriptions in support of day schools reported on last year amount to 28,2157. The expenditure from rates upon the annual maintenance of schools, apart from any repayment of, or interest upon, loans for providing them, amounts to 425,9061. This does not, of course, represent the full expenditure from the rates on education. During the year 1899-1900, as we learn from the accountant in Edinburgh, whose report has not yet been issued, the total amount raised from the education rate was 923,358., which necessitated an average rate of 966 pence instead of 9-25 pence in 1898-99. Another item which formerly constituted a large part of the local contributions, viz., the school pence, has undergone, since 1st October 1889, a very material modification. This item is now replaced, as regards by far the greatest part of its amount, by the fee grants under the Parliamentary Vote and by sums accruing under the Local Taxation (Customs and Excise) Act, 1890 and under the Education and Local Taxation (Scotland) Act, 1892. The effect of these changes is discussed in a subsequent part of this Report.* The amount of Parliamentary grants to day schools under inspection has increased from 677,9641. to 696,6071. 68. 8d., and the rate of grant has increased from 17. 2s. 1 d. to 17. 2s. 4d. for each scholar in average attendance. schools. The school provision of the country consists not only of the Evening day schools, ordinary and Higher Grade, but also of evening continuation continuation schools. Of these schools 867 (950)† were examined during the year: 43,962 (49,202) scholars were, on an average, in attendance each evening: and 53,733 (57,729) were present at the Inspectors' visit. The cost of "maintenance" per child in average attendance was :- 4913. + The figures in brackets represent the numbers of last year. B 2 |