§ 38. Mr. BRIDGEMANasked the President of the Board of Education if in Toltington the Roman Catholic sisters of charity have conducted a school for six years, giving continuation classes which follow a curriculum recognised by the Board, and that 93 per cent. of the pupils -have passed the examinations of the Lan-cashire and Cheshire Institutes, and have received no Grant from the Board; and the distance to the nearest council continuation school?
Mr. PEASEThe evening classes at the Toltington St. Philomena's Home, to which I assume the hon. Member refers, have never been on the Evening Schools' Grant List, and I have, therefore, had no occasion to recognise or not to recognise the curriculum. The classes form part of a residential institution, and I am not prepared, pending the settlement of revised regulations for Grants to evening schools, 2496 which I have now under consideration, to make evening school Grants to any new residential institution not already in receipt of Grants. I am unable to state without further inquiry the exact distance of the home from the nearest recognised evening school.
§ Mr. BRIDGEMANDo I understand that the question will be considered when the general question of continuation schools is under review?