PUBLIC EDUCATION IN ENGLAND AND WALES A Practical Guide to its Administration BY G. EDWARDES JONES OF THE INNER TEMPLE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW, EDITOR OF 'BLUNT'S BOOK AND J. C. G. SYKES LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY RIVINGTONS 34 KING STREET, COVENT GARDEN LONDON 1903 A. M. C. PREFACE. THIS volume is designed for the use of persons concerned in the administration of the law of public education, elementary, technical and secondary. The first essential in this administration will now be a comprehension of the Education Act, 1902. Even in matters which are not directly affected by the provisions of this Act, the indirect influence of the Act will soon be widely felt. Hitherto it has been possible for a large proportion of educational administrators, and even for public educational authorities, to administer one branch of education with a fair amount of efficiency, but without much interest in, or knowledge of, the law relating to other branches. Henceforward this will not be possible, and it will be necessary for any persons or bodies wishing to deal with any branch of the subject both to acquaint themselves fully with the main principles of the Education Act, 1902, and to know or to have the means of knowing the provisions of the Acts dealing with branches of the subject other than that with which they are already familiar. With the object of meeting these requirements, this book contains: In Division I.: the Education Act, 1902, fully annotated. In Division II.: the series of Acts relating to Elementary Education and Technical Instruction. In Division III.: the Board of Education Act, 1899, and the Orders in Council made thereunder, with the Endowed Schools, Charitable Trusts, and Mortmain and School Sites Acts. In Division IV.: Orders in Council and statutory and other regulations as to Public Elementary Schools (the Code for 1903), Secondary Day Schools, Evening Schools and Teachers' Registration, together with Acts of minor importance, relating b |