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APPENDIX B.

SCHOLARSHIPS. LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL.—TECHNICAL EDUCATION BOARD. Regulations foe Junior County Scholarships (Examination April, Mat, 1898). 1. The Technical Education Board will, in July, 1898, proceed to award not more that three hundred junior county scholarships, of which about two hundred may be awarded to boys and about one hundred to gills, but these numbers may be varied in accordance with the results of the examination. Girls of thirteen are eligible for appointment to free scholarships in domestic economy. 2. These scholarships are intended to secure for promising pupils, the pecuniary circumstances of whose parents are such that they cannot reasonably be expected to allow their children to continue longer at school, two years' additional education, with special reference to subjects coming within the statutory definition of technical and manual instruction, in order that they may be fit subsequently to take advantage of further technical training. They are, accordingly, to be distinguished from the intermediate county scholarships, which are of larger amount, and intended to carry on the education of the scholar for a longer period. 3. The children of parents who are in receipt of more than £150 per annum or (in the case of persons paid weekly) £3 a week from all sources will not be permitted to compete for these scholarships. The Board requires parents to sign a special declaration before entering their children for the scholarships. The Board further reserves the right to make such inquiries as it may deem fit into the income and position of the parents. In estimating the amount of income, the joint income of both parents, if both parents are alive, must be taken into account. 4. Each scholarship will be awarded, in the first instance, for one year, and will be renewable for a second year if the scholar's conduct and progress are satisfactory to the Board ; in the case of scholars who at the time of the award are under twelve years of age the scholarships will be tenable until the end of the half-year in which they attain fourteen years of age. (For this purpose half-years are regarded as terminating on 31st July and 31st December.) The scholarship will include free education at one of the schools named below, or such other suitable school as the Board may hereafter approve, and a money-payment of £8 (eight pounds) during the first year's tenure of the scholarship, and £12 (twelve pounds) during the second year ; and if the scholarship is extended beyond the second year the payment will be at the rate of £12 (twelve pounds) a year. 5. Attention is called to various scholarships which are offered on the results of the same examination by bodies other than the Technical Education Board. They do not contain similar restrictions as to the incomes of parents. Particulars as to these scholarships will be published in the London Technical Education Gazette for February, 1898. 6. Candidates must, as a rule, be pupils of public elementary schools, must be in the fifth or a higher standard, and under thirteen years of age on the Ist day of May, 1898, and at that date must have worked for at least two school-years as bond fide scholars of a public elementary school. Twentyfive of the scholarships, however, are open to pupils from schools which are not public elementary schools, provided that in other respects the candidates conform to the Board's conditions. 7. The parents or guardians of candidates must be resident within the Administrative County of London at the time of the award, and must have resided since July, 1897, within the County of London or within the adjoining Counties of Middlesex, Essex, Kent, and Surrey, or within the County Boroughs of West Ham or Croydon. During the tenure of the scholarship the parents must continue to reside either within the County of London or within one of the counties or county boroughs named above. 8. The names of candidates must be sent to the secretary of the Board by the headmasters or headmistresses of their respective schools, or by the parents or guardians of the candidates, not later than Saturday, 2nd April, on forms to be obtained on application by letter or otherwise at the Board's offices. 9. The examination will be held on Saturday, 30th April, and Saturday, 21st May, 1898, and information will be sent a few days before the examination to the head-teachers of those schools from which candidates are sent up respecting the place at which the candidates will be examined. Head-teachers are requested to see that candidates from their schools present themselves for the examination at the appointed place and time. 10. A special examination will be held on Monday, 2nd May, and Monday, 23rd May, for those candidates whose parents or guardians declare that they have conscientious objections to the candidates undertaking an examination on Saturday. Candidates who, for this reason, wish to be examined on Monday, must indicate their wish by writing the words "Monday examination" at the head of their application-forms. 11. The examination will be conducted by the Joint Scholarships Board (established by the Incorporated Association of Headmasters), and will consist of two parts —the general subjects, in the whole of which each candidate must satisfy the examiners, and the special subjects. General Subjects.—To be taken by all candidates: (1.) Arithmetic (including mensuration). This paper will be set in two' parts. (2.) Dictation and handwriting. These subjects will be marked from the same exercise. (3.) Composition. The passage for composition will be twice read out, and after half an hour's interval candidates will be required to reproduce the substance of it in fair English, and in their own words.