Part 1 Papers chiefly on the fact of the non-attendance and early removal of children from school in this country: on the evidence afforded by the reports of Her Majesty's Inspectors as to the early age at which children are taken from school, M. Mitchell; the same subject, with special reference to schools not under government inspection, Flint; the educational statistics of the last census, in so far as they bear on children at school, at work and at neither - with the practical conclusions to which they lead, W.H. Hyett; on our past educational improvement, and the means of future progress, especially in lengthening the term of education, Edward Baines; on the results of returns from Birmingham, showing the degree in which labour and idleness respectively interfere with education, J.D. Goodman; upon the state of education among the working classes of the parish of Sheffield, S. Earnshaw. Part 2 Papers on the attendance, etc., at schools on the continent: on the comparative condition of children in English and foreign towns, Joseph Kay; l'ecole primaire et le travial professional, M. Eugene Rendu; de l'education des enfants des classes ouvrieres, et specialement de leur retrait premature de l'ecole, Matter; the educational system in Germany, and its advantages, Boscawen Ibbotson. Part 3 Papers chiefly on prize and certificate schemes: on the nature and administrative machinery of prize schemes, Nash Stephenson; suggestions of plans for retaining the attendance of children at school to a more advanced age, H.G. Robinson; on certificate and prize schemes, with suggestions for their improvement and extension, Seymour Tremenheere; on the working of the Staffordshire certificate and registration scheme, and on the best method for its extension to all schools, J.P. Norris. Part 4 Papers on half-time schemes, and evening and factory schools: on the operation of the half-time scheme in factories, Alexander Redgrave; on the principles to be observed in promoting school attendance, W.J. Kennedy; on factory schools, J. Faulkener Winfield; on voluntary half-time schemes, C.H. Bromby; on the plan of juvenile and adult education adopted in the writer's manufactory, Edward Akroyd; on feeding and evening schools, the former as a means of prolonging, and the latter as a means of resuming, education, John Thackeray Bunce. Part 5 Papers not falling under the above heads: on endowments created for the apprenticeship of children, and on the application of such funds by way of premiums or rewards, as an encouragement in the education of the poor, and for promoting their longer continuance at school - and on the employment of other charities founded for undefined purposes in aid of the same objects, Thomas Hare; on industrial training as an adjunct to school teaching, Jellinger C. Symons; juvenile delinquency in its relation to the educational movement, Mary Carpenter; on the proposed middle class examinations as a means of stimulating the education of the lower cla
