HC Deb 13 March 1893 vol 9 cc1825-6
MR. WEBSTER (St. Pancras, E.)

I beg to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education whether it is in his power to state the percentage of children who have passed the First Standard in Ireland as compared with those in Great Britain?

THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL (Mr. A. ACLAND,) York, W.R., Rotherham

I am informed by the Commissioners of National Education in Ireland that the percentage of passes in the First Class is 85.5. This Class is, however, not identical with the First Standard in England and Wales. The system of individual passes having been abolished by the Code of 1891, there is no percentage of passes in England and Wales to be compared with the Irish figures.