§ Mr. D. J. Williamsasked 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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III 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. Williamsasked 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.
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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