HC Deb 03 February 1902 vol 102 cc186-7
MR. CATHCART WASON (Orkney and Shetland)

I beg to ask the Lord Advocate whether the attention of the Scotch Education Department, has been called to the effect of the financial conditions of the Continuation Class Code for Scotland, in discouraging School Boards in the poorer districts from instituting such classes; and whether any relaxation of these conditions is contemplated.

MR. A. GRAHAM MURRAY

Representations have been made as to the difficulty, in some of the poor districts, of raising even the moderate amount of local contribution required by the Continuation Class Code, which, by Article 50, grants terms to rural schools more liberal than any previously allowed. The matter will receive consideration when the Code is under revision, but I am not to be understood as pledging the Department to a modifition of the condition.