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and the latter with 72 students. There is a similar College (Bedford) for ladies in London with 25 lecturers and 223 students, and another in Edinburgh. The Royal HoUoway College (for ladies) at Egham, Surrey, has 20 professors and lecturers, 5 teachers, and 110 students in residence. The City and Guilds of London Technical Institute has a Central College with 23 professors, teachers, &c,, and 239 day-students in 1899 ; an Interme- diate College with 29 professors, &c., and 945 students (760 evening). There is also a School of Technical Art with 6 teachers and 131 students, and a Leather Trades School with 13 teachers and 200 students. Middle-class education in England is entirely unorganised, but in May, 1897, the Committee of Council on Education resolved to ascertain as far as possible the number of pupils receiving secondary instruction in all types of schools, whether public, endowed, proprietary, or private. For this purpose an exhaustive inquiry was carried out, but from its scope grant-earning pupils were excluded, also pupils at evening schools and students at colleges and technical institutes, as well as the whole of the county of Monmouth, which is under the Welsh Intermediate Education Act of 1889. In the arrangement of the information collected no attempt was made towards classification of the schools, according to grade or efficiency, but they have been grouped accord- ing to the constitution of their controlling authorities. These authorities are of five kinds : 1. Private individuals (the owners) ; 2. Committees represent- ing subscribers (religious communities, City companies, &c.), not registered under the Companies' Acts ; 3. Limited liability companies ; 4. Royal Charters, Acts of Parliament, Scheme of Court of Chancery, &c. ; 5. Local authorities. The following table shows the total number of schools in the return and of pupils in them, as distributed amongst these five categories of control : —

Form of Control Schools for Boys Schools for Girls Jlixed Schools 1 Total i il 1 Schools Boys Scohols Girls Schools Pupils 'Schools] Pupils Private Enterprise Subscribers' Companies'. Endowed, Ac. Local Authority. 1,311 46,617 70 8,719 48 5,188 502 1 59,517 27 2,272 2,886 ' 80,286 99 6,321 99 13,238 86 1 14,119 3 i 275 970 1 26,027 28 i 3,626 3 1 308 31 1 3,035 46 i 6,996 5,167 152,930 197 1 18,666 1 150 18,734 619 ! 76,671 76 9,543 1,958 ' 122,3131 3,173 114,2391 1,078 39,992 6,209 276,5441

1 To these numbers have to be added 14,937 boys in girls' schools, and 63 girls in boya schools, bringing the total up to 291,544. The following table gives the number and proportion of boarders and day pupils in the schools on the return : —

- Boarders Day Pupils Total Boarders are 1 per cent. 1 of whole i Number. Boys' Schools Girls' Schools Mixed Schools r Boys I Giris 43,692 20,670 2,771 1,652 78,621 93,669 18,481 17,088 122,313 114,239 21,252 18,740 35-7 18- 13- 9" Total . 68,785 207,759 276,544 24-8

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