The Annual Report of the Board of Education was published
on Monday. Special referenoe is made to the Education (Administrative Provisions) Act of 1907 as calculated to secure substantial benefits through medical inspection, vacation schools, play centres, and other means of recreation during the holidays, and the duties of the Medical Department established by the Board are fully described. The Report also deals fully with the conditions on which increased grants will be made in aid of secondary schools,—viz., the imposition of similar regulations as to freedom from denomi- national restrictions, government, teaching staff, and religious instruction, to those applicable to new Training Colleges. It is stated, however, that where schools now in receipt of grants are unable or unwilling to divest themselves of denominational restrictions or requirements, and are regarded by the local educational authority as supplying an important part of the provision for higher education in the district, one at more of the above-mentioned conditions may be waived, provided the local authority passes a resolution to that effect. The question of physical training in elementary schools and Training Colleges, and the need for developing such training on rational lines as a means of improving the physical condition of the children, is also fully dealt with, and it is announced that the Government has considered it desirable, to arrange for an official Education Conference to be held in London in 1911.
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