§ MR.HOWARD VINCENT (Sheffield, Central)asked the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education, If Her Majesty's Government propose, when their Technical Instruction Bill becomes law, to lay down any scheme of technical and commercial education for general application, or to leave the choice of subjects very largely to the Local Authorities and the special requirements of the trade and commerce of a particular district?
§ THE VICE PRESIDENT (Sir WILLIAM HART DYKE) (Kent, Dartford)It is not proposed that the Science and Art Department shall prepare any general scheme of technical instruction beyond that provided in the Directory; but rather that each Local Authority asking for sanction shall submit a scheme specially adapted to their locality for the approval of the Department.
§ MR. JAMES STUART (Shoreditch, Huxton)asked, whether French and 714 German would be included in the subjects allowed?
§ SIR WILLIAM HART DYKEreplied that he thought the answer he had given covered that question entirely.
§ MR. MUNDELLA (Sheffield, Brightside)complained of the vagueness of the answer.
§ SIR WILLIAM HART DYKEsaid, he thought these questions had better be discussed on the second reading of the Bill.