Last week the education committee of the London County Council approved an appropriation of £17,500,000 to be spent on education in the coming year. This sum is the largest appropriation the committee has ever set aside for the purposes of education; the committee is responsible for popular elementary and secondary education in the County of London.
Before the war there were about 460,000 boys and girls in the elementary, secondary, and technical schools under the County Council, but owing to circumstances brought on by the war their number in the coming year is expected not to exceed 338,000. In spite of this, the financial estimates are about two and a half million pounds higher than those of the previous year.
The reason for this great increase is that the terms of the Education Act passed in 1944 have begun to be applied and put into effect. The costs of secondary education alone in the London area will rise from two million to more than three million pounds. Likewise the appropriations for children's recreation have risen from £9,000 to £33,000, and the appropriations for recreation and for social and physical training from £50,000 to £202,000. More than six million pounds will be spent on school equipment and its renewal, for most of it had been in use since before the war, and much of it is no longer fit for use
in the new schools provided for by the Education Act.
And although the total expenditure will exceed the pre-war total by three million pounds, two-thirds of this expenditure will be covered by an increase of 40 percent in the grant paid by the Treasury.
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To housewives
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The American Junior College for Women has organized a series of lectures for this year, begun on Tuesday evening, February 19, with a lecture by the eminent teacher Mrs. Roberts on the subject of introducing Japan. She gave the listeners a charming and profound picture of Japan in all its aspects, so that the listeners came away as though they had visited Japan themselves and become acquainted with the most important traits of its people, their mentalities, and their history.
The following lectures fall in this order:
Mr. Charles Campbell spoke on "Questions of International Economics" on February 26. Dr. Salwa Nassar, "Physics and Medicine," on March 5 at eight in the evening. Mr. Rushdi Ma'alouf, "Our Culture between the Politics of Curricula and the Curricula of Politics," on March 12 at eight in the evening. Mr. Najib Sadaqa, "What We Need from Western Thought." And the final session will be a comprehensive artistic evening in which a number of musicians, painters, poets, and other men of art will take part, with an artistic introduction by Mr. Rushdi Ma'alouf.
London — Mrs. Asma al-Khoury, wife of Fares Bey al-Khoury, head of the delegation, delivered a speech at the club of British women university graduates, in which she spoke of the Arab woman, her activity, and her enjoyment of great freedom and independence. She referred to the women's associations of the Arab East, and expressed her admiration for the British woman and her mighty steadfastness in the recent war.