§ MR. MUNDELLA (Sheffield, Brightside)I beg to ask the Lord Advocate whether the system of inspection and examination of endowed and middle-class schools by the Scotch Education Department is now generally in force in Scotland, and whether the leaving certificates granted in such examinations are recognised by academic and professional authorities; and if he can state the names of the authorities who accept these certificates in lieu of entrance examinations?
§ * MR. J. P. B. ROBERTSONThe system of inspection and examination of endowed and higher class schools by the Scotch Education Department is now generally in force in Scotland, and the leaving certificate, granted in connection therewith by the Scotch Education Department, is accepted in lieu of other examinations by the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, Edinburgh, Glasgow and St. Andrews; the Lords of Council and Session for the purposes of the Law Agents Act; the War Office; the General Medical Council; the College of Surgeons in Edinburgh; the Pharmaceutical Society; the Society of Solicitors before the Supreme Courts; and other Public Bodies.