. The commonwealth of Australia; federal handbook, prepared in connection with the eighty-fourth meeting of the British association for the advancement of science, held in Australia, August, 1914 . The need for developing a Statesecondary school system has not been so strongly felt in some of the otherStates, where a number of efficient private secondary schools already Victoria, there is a large number of excellent denominational higher schoolsand colleges. In Queensland, there are ten district grammar schools (sixboys, four girls) each of which receives a State subsidy of £1,000 a
. The commonwealth of Australia; federal handbook, prepared in connection with the eighty-fourth meeting of the British association for the advancement of science, held in Australia, August, 1914 . The need for developing a Statesecondary school system has not been so strongly felt in some of the otherStates, where a number of efficient private secondary schools already Victoria, there is a large number of excellent denominational higher schoolsand colleges. In Queensland, there are ten district grammar schools (sixboys, four girls) each of which receives a State subsidy of £1,000 a year, in-cluding £250 for the provision of district scholarships. In both States, theseschools are subject to Government inspection. South Australia has nineteendistrict high schools (State) and at least two denominational grammar schoolsof the best type. Western Australia is establishing continuation classes andcentral schools, subsidizes one high school to the extent of £1,000 a year, and Educational Policy and Development. 529 Chart showing the General Scheme of Publie Education in New South Wales. Kindergarten AND Infant Years. Primary School6 Years. QUALIFYING CERTIFICATE,. Educational Policy and Development. 531 has now in operation an admirably equipped modern school at Perth, with afour years secondary course, providing both general and specialized instruc-tion. Tasmania, owing to the financial loss entailed by her entering theCommonwealth, has been rather backm^ard in educational development, butis now planning a scheme on lines somewhat similar to those adopted in NewSouth Wales. Certain weaknesses in the New South Wales scheme may now be weaknesses are to be found in the other States, but, since the systemof the mother State has received (for reasons mentioned) a prominent place inthis article, they may now be stated with special reference to that State, theoldest and largest in the Commonwealth, which, after a lengthened period ofeducati
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