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THE Education Reform Council, which was founded last April at a conference called by the Teachers' Guild, has issued a programme of education reform. The work of the council is as yet incomplete, and it is hoped to publish the full report early next year. Among other important recommendations enumerated in the programme the following deserve special mention. The Ministry of Education should hold a higher place in the hierarchy of the offices of the State, and the salary of the Minister should be equivalent to that of other principal Secretaries of State. Progressive organisation is hindered by certain statutory distinctions between higher and elementary education. Local authorities for higher education should be obliged to supply or aid the supply of higher education, and the limit of 2d. to the higher education rate in the county areas should be removed. For the purpose of coordinating the activities of local education authorities with those of the universities and institutions for higher education, the country should be divided into educational provinces, the areas of which should be larger than those of the existing local authorities.
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Educational Reform . Nature 98, 300–301 (1916). https://doi.org/10.1038/098300b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/098300b0