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schools and industrial training in education, and also in connection
therewith (a) the administration of the apprenticeship charities
in London, and (b) the establishment or development of employment
bureaux or other means of bringing those leaving school
into touch with the industrial and commercial world. The Council
was represented by Aldermen Cresswell and Lorden, and, upon
hearing the report of its representatives as to the proceedings at
the Conference, expressed regret that there had been no effective
result of the Conference, and requested the Lord Mayor to call
another meeting so that definite resolutions might be approved,
and a Committee formed to give effect thereto.
Cost of
Education.
103. The Council considered a resolution passed by the
Paddington Borough Council to the effect that,,
having regard to the annually increasing cost of
education and the enormous burden upon the ratepayers consequent
thereon, such Council was of opinion that the education of
children should be wholly paid for out of Imperial Funds, instead
of being partially charged to local rates. This Council did not
agree entirely with those views, but expressed the opinion that a
greater proportion of the cost of National Education should be
met by increased Government grants, and that, as the contributions
from Imperial Funds in London were less in proportion than
in the rest of the country, the grants should be augmented in.
order that this unfair incidence might be remedied.
Educational
Conference.
104. A Conference on educational matters was held in
November, 1909, between Members of the LondonCounty
Council and Managers of Public Elementary
Schools in the Battersea, Clapham, and Wandsworth Electoral
Divisions, to which the Members of this Council's Education
Committee were also invited. Resolutions were passed at the
Conference on the lines of the Council's views mentioned in the
preceding paragraph, and on the subject of the constitution of the
County Council's Education Committee, the administration of
evening schools, the employment of married lady teachers, and
other matters. On considering the decisions of the County
Council upon the resolutions, this Council expressed the opinion
that certain of the resolutions should be again brought before the
Conference at its next meeting, and pressed for acceptance and
action by the Education Authority, and arrangements have been,