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Object of the grant.

Nature of aid.

I.—(cont.)

The charge for inspection, based on the ordinary curriculum, will be as follows, viz. :

For a School having not more than 50 students

For a School having more than 50 students and not
more than 75

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For a School having more than 75 students and not
more than 100.
And so on.

£5

£7 10 0

£10

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In assessing the charge but half the above rate will be payable in respect of those students in a school who are in excess of 400; and a further reduction at the same rate will be made in respect of all students who are in that department of a school which is conducted as a School of Science.

A minimum charge of £5 will in all cases be made.

The Report of the Board on the efficiency of the school at the time of inspection will be sent to the Governing Body and to the head-master or the head-mistress of the school, and also to the County Council, if that body contributes to the cost of the inspection under section 3, sub-section 2 of the Act. The report, if published, must be published in its entirety.

The names of some of those who have undertaken to act as occasional Inspectors of Secondary Schools are given at p. vi.

GRANTS AND THEIR CONDITIONS. II. The Grant for instruction in Science and Art is applied(a.) to the direction and maintenance of the Royal Colleges of Science and Art and the Science and Art Museums in London (the Victoria and Albert, and Bethnal Green Museums); and of the Geological Museum in Jermyn Street, London; and

(b.) to aid in the establishment and maintenance of Science and Art Schools and Classes; and of local Museums of Science and Art.

NATURE OF AID.

III. The aid is granted as follows:

(a.) The maintenance and instruction of teachers and students attending the Royal Colleges of Science and Art, London, and other approved centres. (b.) Loans and grants to local Museums and to Science and Art Schools.

(c.) Payments to the Managers of Science and Art Schools and Classes, and in the form of certificates, prizes, medals, free Studentships, Scholarships and Exhibitions.

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grant.

IV. Grants are made only to schools and classes Conditions of which have been approved by the Board as suitable in character and financial position to receive aid from public funds, and which are open at all times to the visit and inspection of its officers.

V. Grants may be withheld wholly or in part for any Revision of breach of the rules, or if the instruction or supervision

is inefficient. The Board is the sole judge as respects

all grants and awards, and its decision is final.

The vote for instruction in Science and Art is liable

to be decreased and eventually discontinued.

Grants are intended to supplement and not to supersede local effort.

grant.

and local support.

VI. Every school or class must be under the Management superintendence of a body of Managers responsible to the Board. It must not be conducted for private profit or farmed out to the Teacher; and it must have local support either in the form of fees and subscriptions or of rates levied under the Technical Instruction Act. Grants cannot be made for schools and classes in buildings which are not public institutions, unless such classes are held in the evening and are open to the public. Recognition may be withheld from any school or from a class in any subject which the Board considers to be unnecessary or to compete unduly with a neighbouring school.

Schools managed by a public company in the Articles of Association
of which provision is made that no dividend shall be paid exceed-
ing 5 per cent. per annum are not considered as conducted for
private profit, provided they show that the capital is not nominal,
but has absolutely been expended in buildings or maintenance.
Gratuitous instruction is permitted where the school or class is under
the direct control of the Local Authority constituted under the
provisions of the Technical Instruction Acts; or in special circum-
stances, where the class has been but recently established.
The Managers of a school or class will not be permitted to charge
abnormally low fees in order to compete with the others in the same
locality.

Students in a Training College; teachers and pupil teachers; and
holders of scholarships, exhibitions, and studentships, may be
exempted from the payment of fees.

MANAGERS AND THEIR DUTIES.

VII. In Counties and County Boroughs in England and Wales which possess an organization for the promotion of Secondary Education, such organization if

Local autho Managers.

rities as

Other
Managers.

Appointment

of Chairman and Secretary.

Premises, equipment, and staff

VII.-(cont.)

recognized by the Board may notify its willingness to be responsible to the Board for Science and Art Instruction within its area. In such case grants will, in general, be made to the Managers of new Schools and Classes, only if they are acting in unison with such organization. The rights of the Managers of existing Schools and Classes will not be interfered with; and Town Councils which are Managers of Schools receiving Science and Art Grants will not be debarred from establishing in their districts additional Schools where necessary.

Where no such organization as above has been recognized, the Managers may be :

a. The County Council or County Borough Council or a Committee thereof, acting under the Technical Instruction Acts.

b. The Governing Body of a School (not being a Public Elementary School) under the Endowed Schools Acts.

c. A Committee formed (1) for the special purpose of superintending and managing a School or Class to be aided by grants from the Board, or (2) for conducting examinations of classes not aided by grants from the Board.

For the conditions under which such Managers may be constituted see pp. 64 to 68 of the Appendix.

VIII. The Managers must appoint a Chairman and a Secretary, who will be the medium of communication with the Board.

To cach approved School or Class is assigned a distinguishing "School Number,' Number," which must be quoted on all forms and correspondence.

PREMISES, FITTINGS, APPARATUS, AND EXAMPLES.

IX. The Managers must provide and maintain premises approved by the Board as suitable for the instruction and for the examinations, with firing, lighting, apparatus, examples, &c. (see Note II. on p. 63). They

IX.-(cont.)

must engage, employ, and pay the teacher or teachers, and will as a rule be required to pay them some fixed minimum salary.

SCIENCE.

Details as to laboratories, will be given with the Syllabus. (See Note II. on p. 63.)

ART.

A School of Art must be held in rooms approved by the Board, which are wholly devoted to elementary and advanced instruction in Art.

A School of Art should as a rule comprise rooms for Drawing from Plants and the Life, for Painting and for Modelling, in addition to rooms for Elementary and other Study and instruction in Ornamental and Decorative Art.

of income.

X. That portion of the income of a school which is Application derived from instruction in Science or in Art must be applied to such purposes as shall be approved by the Board. If at any time it appears that the constitution of the Body of Managers, the application of the income, the teaching or the equipment is unsatisfactory, the assistance of the Board may be reduced or withdrawn. An account of the receipts and expenditure of each school or class must be furnished to the Board annually on Form 168a by 31st December. (See Appendix, p. 69.)

INSPECTION.

XI. An Inspector of the Board will from time to visits of time visit the school or class and report on the con- Inspector. dition and suitability of the premises and fittings; the sufficiency of the apparatus, &c., used in the instruction of the school; the character and quality of the instruction; the sufficiency of the teaching staff for the number of students under instruction; the constitution and working of the managing body; and the manner in which the regulations for registration, examination, &c., are carried out.

SUBJECTS OF INSTRUCTION AIDED BY GRANTS.

XII. For the following subjects of Science and Art Subjects of there are Syllabuses (see p. 63), but aid is given by the

instruction.

XII.-(cont.)

Board in respect of courses in Science and Art which have been approved.

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instruments.

Linear Geometry, Linear
Perspective, Architecture,
Sciography.

2. Freehand outline drawing
of rigid forms from flat
examples.

3. Freehand outline drawing from the "round."

4. Shading from flat examples.

5. Shading from the "round" or solid forms.

6 and 7. Drawing the human figure and animal forms, and flowers, foliage, and objects of natural history, from flat examples.

8. Drawing the human figure, or animal forms, from the "round" or from nature.

9. Anatomical studies of the human figure or of animal forms.

10. Drawing flowers, foliage, landscape details, and objects of natural history, from nature.

11. Painting ornament from flat examples.

12. Painting ornament from the cast.

13. Painting from flat examples-flowers, still life,

&c.

* These subjects are liable to early revision. Subdivisions of them for classifying School Works for the National Competition will be given with the Syllabuses (see Note II. on p. 63), and the groupings of certain subjects for purposes of registration are given on pp. 24 and 25.

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