1880. NEW CODE OF REGULATIONS WITH APPENDICES, BY THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORDS OF THE Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty. LONDON: PRINTED BY GEORGE E. EYRE AND WILLIAM SPOTTISWOODE, FOR HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE. 1. A SUM of money is annually granted by Parliament "For public "Education in England and Wales." 2. This grant is administered by the Education Department, hereinafter called the Department.* 3. The object of the grant is to aid local exertion, under certain conditions, to maintain (a.) Elementary schools (Article 4) for children whose attendance at school is assumed not to extend beyond their 14th year; and (b.) Training colleges for teachers (Article 83). 4. An elementary school is a school, or department of a school, at which elementary education is the principal part of the education there given, and does not include any school or department of a school at which the ordinary payments, in respect of the instruction, from each scholar, exceed ninepencet a week (Elementary Education Act, 1870, sec. 3.) 5. Aid to maintain schools is given by annual grants to the managers conditional upon the attendance and proficiency of the scholars, the qualifications of the teachers, and the state of the schools. 6. No grants are made to schools which are not public elementary schools within the meaning of the Elementary Education Act, 1870.‡ *The term "Education Department" means "The Lords of the Committee of the "Privy Council on Education" (Elementary Education Act, 1870, s. 3.). †This rule will be held to be violated if more than 10 per cent. of the scholars pay above 9d. per week. The school fee must cover all the instruction given in the school. See section 7 of the Act, which runs as follows:- "Every elementary school which is conducted in accordance with the following regulations shall be a public elementary school within the meaning of this Act; and every public elementary school shall be conducted in accordance with the following regulations (a copy of which regulations shall be conspicuously put up in every such school); namely, "(1.) It shall not be required, as a condition of any child being admitted into or continuing in the school, that he shall attend or abstain from attending any Sunday school or any place of religious worship, or that he shall attend any religious observance or any instruction in religious subjects in the school or elsewhere, from which observance or instruction he may be withdrawn by his parent, or that he shall, if withdrawn by his parent, attend the school on any day exclusively set apart for religious observance by the religious body to which his parent belongs: "(2.) The time or times during which any religious observance is practised, or instruction in religious subjects is given at any meeting of the school shall be either at the beginning or at the end, or at the beginning and the end of such meeting, and shall be inserted in a time table to be approved by the Education Department, and to be kept permanently and conspicuously affixed in every school-room; and any scholar may be withdrawn by his parent from such observance or instruction without forfeiting any of the other benefits of the school: " (3.) The school shall be open at all times to the inspection of any of Her Majesty's inspectors, so, however, that it shall be no part of the duties of such inspector to inquire into any instruction in religious subjects given at such school, or to examine any scholar therein in religious knowledge, or any religious subject or book: in "(4.) The school shall be conducted in accordance with the conditions required to be fulfilled by an elementary school in order to obtain an annual parliamentary grant.' Q 168. Wt. 17213. A 2 |