HC Deb 02 April 1946 vol 421 cc186-8W
Mr. D. J. Williams

asked the Minister of Education how many schools in Wales provide full time technical education for young people under 18 years of age; and the names of these schools and the year each one of them was opened.

Miss Wilkinson:

The information required is included in the following tables. The year in which each school was opened cannot readily be given, and the year of initial recognition has been substituted where this is known.

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Other establishments providing full-time courses for students under18.
L.E.A. Name of Establishment. Date of Recognition.
(i)Art Schools
Carmarthenshire Carmarthen Art School before 1900
Llanelly Art School 1908
Cardiff Cardiff Art School before 1900
Swansea Swansea Art School before 1900
Newport (Mon.) Newport Art School before 1900
(ii)Technical Day Classes
Caernarvonshire Bangor Normal Training College (Course for non-intending teachers) 1934
Denbighshire Wrexham, The Denbighshire Technical College 1929
Flintshire Hawardenm, Shotton Deeside Central School Technical Day Classes 1943
Rhyl, Glyndwr Central School Technical Day Classes 1943
Glamorgan Rhondda Technical School 1928
Merthyr Tydfil Merthyr Tydfil, Quakers' Yard Mining and Technical Institute 1942

Mr. D. J. Williams

asked the Minister of Education how many boys and girls were attending junior technical schools in Wales in 1930, 1935, 1940 and 1945, respectively; and how many were attending other secondary schools during the same periods.

Miss Wilkinson:

The figures asked for by my hon. Friend are as follows. It will be appreciated that they relate to the period before the Education Act, 1944, came into operation, and that the figures for Secondary Schools therefore cover schools of the grammar type only.

The only figures available since the new Act came into operation relate to October, 1945. In that month there were 81,178 pupils on the registers of maintained and assisted secondary schools of all types in Wales. Separate figures cannot be given for the technical, grammar and modern schools at this date, but nearly all the former junior technical schools in Wales have been reclassified as secondary technical schools, and pupils in these schools are therefore included in the total.

WALES.
Number of Pupils on the registers of Junier Tecnical Schools.
Boys. Girls. Total.
1930 568 112 680
1935 1,032 45 1,077
1940 1,593 92 1,685
1944 2,609 240 2,849

Number of Pupils on the registers of grant earning Secondary Schools.
Boys. Girls. Total.
1930 19,427 17,936 37,363
1935 24,129 21,363 45,493
1940 23,999 24,211 48,210
1944 26,363 27,366 53,729