§ MR. LAWRENCE (Liverpool, Abercromby)To ask the Secretary to the Board of Education how many reports on the Art instruction in secondary schools have been made to the Board during the last twelve months by Science inspectors; whether it is with the approval of the Board that such inspectors should inspect the Art work at such schools in the absence of the Art master, and when no Art instruction is going on, and report thereon to the Board; and whether he will place upon the Table the full report by the
† See (4) Debates, cxxix., 1326.1194 Science Inspector On the Art instruction at the Kendal Grammar School, which led last year to the dismissal of the Art master from his appointment at that school, and the report of the Art Inspector sent to re-inspect the work done there.(Answered by Sir William Anson.) There is no division of the Board's inspectors which can accurately be defined as "Science" Inspectors; if only for this reason, therefore. I am unable to give the information asked for in the first part of the Question. Any such definition would be seriously misleading. I do not think that there is any sufficient reason for laying upon the Table the two reports referred to in the last paragraph of the Question, but I shall be happy to show them privately to the hon. Member if he desires it. So far as my information goes, the report of the Board's inspector was not, as the hon. Member seems to suggest, the only cause of the dismissal of the Art master.