Author : Graham Balfour
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ISBN 13 : 9781331093534
Total Pages : 72 pages
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Book Synopsis Educational Administration by : Graham Balfour
Download or read book Educational Administration written by Graham Balfour and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Educational Administration: Two Lectures Delivered Before the University of Birmingham in February, 1921 By this we shall see why English education is dealt with by the authorities central and local, and not by independent commissioners or philosophically constructed bureaux as in America or on the Continent of Europe. It is almost incredible that ninety years ago there were in England neither central nor local public education authorities, unless we reckon the governors of endowed schools and the governing bodies of the universities and colleges. In 1830 there were in existence a number of educational trusts, many of which were greatly neglected or abused: by 1837, the total number of these reported upon by Lord Brougham's Commission was 28,840, of an aggregate capital value of about a million and a quarter pounds. The only controlling authority over these trusts was the Court of Chancery, which was a byword for procrastination. There were no parliamentary or other public grants for education, and no official body, except the Treasury, to receive them if they should be made. First as to the Central Authority. In 1833, the year after the Reform Bill, the first grant, which amounted to 30,000 'for the purposes of education', was made by the House of Commons. It was stoutly opposed in the House by William Cobbett and Joseph Hume, two prominent Radicals of the day, but was carried by 76 votes to 52. By the Appropriation Act it was paid to the Treasury 'for the erection of school houses in Great Britain', and by the Treasury was handed over to the two large voluntary societies founded in 1811 and 1808, the National Society and the British and Foreign School Society. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
