Excerpt from Questions and Answers Covering the History of England and the Causes of the World WarPublic Instruction. Among the European nations the United Kingdom stands high in number of institutions of higher education and in percentage of pupils in ele mentary schools. She has 93 colleges (18 universities) with an average enrollment of 335 students to each college and one college to each half million of her population. She has elementary schools with an attendance of 157 pupils to each 1000 of population. In elementary education sufficient school accommodation must be provided in every district for all resident children between the ages of 5 and 14 and provision is made for the com pulsory education of defective children to the age of 16 years. In.the year 1913 there were in England and Wales 1010 secondary Schools receiving grants from the Board of Education, with pupils. This does not in olude secondary Schools recognized as efficient but not receiving grants from the state.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.