§ MR. MUNDELLA (Sheffield, Brightside)I beg to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education whether he has received remonstrances from the principal Educational Authorities and Managers of higher elementary schools in England and Scotland against Article 40 of the Science and Art Department, which excludes scholars in public elementary schools from being henceforward examined or earning grants in science; 1485 whether he has seen the statement of the National Association for the Promotion of Technical Education, which describes this circular "as one of the most serious blows which have been struck for some years at the development of scientific and technical education"; and whether, having regard to the feeling with which the circular has been received, he will cause it to be withdrawn?
§ THE VICK PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL (Sir W. HAET DYKE,) Kent, DartfordRepresentations have reached the Department that the effect of the circular in question will be detrimental to science instruction in many schools, and, although I am not prepared to endorse the language in which the circular has been described, I have already stated in answer to a question that this matter is under consideration, with a view to a serious modification of the Minute.