Education Authorities: (CENTRAL AND LOCAL): And Their Relations to Each Other
| Author | B. S. Gott |
| Published date | 01 December 1923 |
| Date | 01 December 1923 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9299.1923.tb02147.x |
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Education
Authorities
Education
Authorities
(CENTRAL
AND
LOCAL)
And
Their Relations
to
Each
Other
By
B.
S.
GOTT,
f\l
A.
(Secrclary,
Mzddlesex
Edzccalzon
Conitmifee)
[
Berrig a
paper
discussed
at
the
Simmcr Conference
of
fhe
Insfttrife
of
Pitblic
Adminislrdioii
at
Cambridge.
28th
July.
1923.1
N
addressing the members of such
a
body
as
the Institute of Public
I
Administration, it is permissible to assume, on the part of the audience,
the possession
of
much specialized knowledge that would certainly be
unfamiliar to
a
gathering of
a
less specialized type.
Nevertheless, in order to render the treatment
of
the subject under
discussion as complete
as
my time limits will permit,
I
propose, very
briefly, to remind you of one or two facts concerning the nature of the
two kinds
of
authorities whose relations we are asked to consider.
NATURE
OF
THE
CENTRAL
AUTHORITY. In 1839
a
committee of
the Privy Council was appointed whose duty was to attend to education.
This committee was abolished by the Board of Education Act, 1S99,
and
a
Board of Education with a permanent departmental staff
was
appointed in its place. The Board was set up in order that it might
discharge the educational functions that had previously been exercised
by
the Charity Commissioners and two committees of the Privy Council.
The Board consists of a President, the Lord President of the Privy
Council, the five principal Secret
i-5
of State, the First Lord of the
Treasury, and the Chancellor
of
th, 1:xchequer.
As
a matter of fact
the Board,
as
such, never meets, and the President, when he faces
Parliament, faces it with sole responsibility for the administration of his
department.
THE NATURE
OF
THE
LOCAL
EDUCATION
AUTHORITY. The local
education authorities are not everywhere the same for elementary and
higher education, nor are the arrangements the same for England and
Wales and for Scotland.
I
confine myself, in this paper, to the condition
of
things in England.
For the purposes of elementary education you have four possible
authorities,
viz-
1.
The county council.
2.
The council of
a
county borough.
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