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only starting at the age of 16. The remedy probably lies in some form of prolongation of the existing school age, though, unless extended beyond 16, this would still fail to affect the older juveniles Most authorities on education would prefer to raise the compulsory age of school attandance to would prefer to raise the compulsory age of school attendance to 15, following the lines of the Hadow scheme, others pin their faith to day continuation schools from 14 to 16 with a possible extension to 18. With the growing improved conditions in workshops, the institution of trade boards and the introduction of welfare workers the latter policy may in the long run become for the rank and file the more popular of the two workshop it combines earning and learning bringing the school into daily contact At present a good deal of the commercial and techni..cal (including artistic) equipment of the elementary or secondary ex-pupil is provided in the evening by the Junior and Senior Commercial Educations and the Junior Technical and Technical institutes (see ..commercial education) probably in no country in the world is there more evening work, ranging as it does from simpler courses in the movements of .commerce and technology to preparation for the higher walk of commerce and industry and including university work and even postgraduate “research. But the whole is run on a voluntary basis and the leakage especially in the lower grades is, owing to various causes, consideration. It also leads to a good deal of over pressure owing to the long hours of business of many of the students while in rural districts the problem is further -complicated by the difficulties of travelling. As regards contact with the elementary school, -criticism from the business world of the latter has -certainly decreased. Taking the elementary school as it is, the only improvements that appear feasible
