The North of England Science Conference

Abstract

THE first annual conference of persons in the north of England concerned in primary, secondary, technical and Other forms of higher education, was held at Manchester on January 2 and 3, and proved highly successful. The conference may be regarded as a natural outcome of similar meetings which have for some years past been held annually in London under the auspices of the London Technical Education Board. Many teachers and other educationists from the north of England have, year by year, attended the conferences in London and have become familiar with the benefits to be derived from a discussion of educational methods. Believing fhat many teachers and others in the northern counties, anxious to reap the advan-. tages springing from such meetings, were debarred from attendance by the expense of travelling, a number of prominent educationists ia Lancashire and Yorkshire arranged this series of meetings in Manchester, and the phenomenally large attendance at all the discussions has fully justified their enterprise. More than three thousand persons accepted invitations to be present, and every meeting was characterised by the greatest enthusiasm. It had been intended to hold all the meetings at the Manchester Municipal School of Technology, but the number of visitors to be accommodated necessitated the duplication of meetings, and a few days before the commencement of the conference arrangements were made for additional papers to be read in other places at the same time as those originally provided.