Education Needs: Growing Requirements of Birmingham: Raising Salaries: … The report of the Higher Education Sub-committee was presented by Mr. Cary Gibson. It recommended that the following members of the Education Committee should be appointed as the committee’s representatives on the Boards of Managers of the Church of England and of the Roman Catholic Pupil Teacher’s Central Classes. Church of England Centre, Councillor Tonks, and Mrs. Pinsent; Roman Catholic centre, Councillors Reynolds and Titterton, Mr. Coley, and Miss Dale … … The Special Schools Sub-committee agreed to the retention of St. Margaret’s School, Rann Street and the Friends’ Hall, Farm Street, as temporary schools for mentally defective children. In moving the adoption of the report, Mrs. Pinsent urged the necessity for the provisions of the Elementary Education of Defective and Epileptic Children Act being made compulsory instead of optional, on the ground that were afflicted children removed to a district in which the Act was not in operation, their education was not continued, and the money already spent was practically wasted. She referred to the drawbacks existing in temporary buildings and said the committee must have buildings of their own adapted to the work and a better system of manual instruction, if they were to raise the percentage of the wage-earners amongst these unfortunate children. The report was approved.
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949