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 INSTRUCTION

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(2) Secondary instruction— classical— is provided in the g/nnctfti and lice, the latter leading to the universities.

(3) Secondary instruction— technical. This is supplied by the technical schools, technical institutes, and institutes for the mercantile marine.

(4) Higher education is sjiipplied by the universities, by other higher institutes, and by special higher schools.

The total Budget of State funds by the Ministry of Public Instruction in 1912-13 was 5,618, 738Z. (of which 27,934Z. was extraordinary) ; as much more being provided by communes, provinces, foundations, &c.

In the last 46 years there has been an increase of 156 per cent, in school attendance.

Percentage of illiterates : —

Year

Over 6 Years

Over 20 Years

Male

Female

Male

Female

1862

68-11

1 81-31

65-5

81-5

1872

61-9

75-7

60-2

77-4

1882

54-6

69-3

53 9

72-9

1901

42-5

54-4

43-9

60-4

1 Over r, years (18G2).

According to the census of 1901 the smallest percentage of illiterates above six years was in Piedmont, 17 '7, and the largest in Calabria, 78-7. Since then there has been much improvement, and now there are ciroondari (arrondissements), e.g. Domodossola Pallanza, and Varallo in the province of Novara, and others in the provinces of Turin, Como,Cuneo, &c., where all young people twenty years of age can read and write.

Statistics of various classes of schools : —

Teachers

Pupils

^»

Number

Males

Females

Total

Asili for infants (1907-08).

3,576

7,392

__

__

343,563

Public schools ,,

01,497

61,9441

—

—

3,002,168

Private do. ,, •

6,534

8,130

—

—

148,081

Evening, &c., do. „

4,783

—

148,233

34,140

182,373

Private 1909-10 :—

Normal schools

143

—

2

3,371

3,373

Ginuasi ....

ISG

—

7,496

143

7,639

Licei ....

57

—

1,207

—

1,207

Teclmical schools.

175

—

5,652

1,238

6,890

Technical institutes

25

—

892

14

906

Higher girls' or

Continuation schools,

&e. (1901-02).

233

1,906

—

9,347

9,347

Normal schools (1909-10).

134

—

2,661

29,792

32,453

Ginnasi (1909-10).

292

—

34,141

3,919

38,060

Licei ,,

159

—

13,050

690

13,740

Technical schools ,,

325

—

59,685

17,046

76,731

Tech. institutes ,,

77

—

17,813

1,586

19,3992

Mercantile marine

institutes .,

20

2,004

2,0043

1 Inclusive of 1,621 school directors.

2 Exclusive of 154 auditors and 3,178 pupils enrolled in evening courses.

3 Exclusive of 22 auditors-