FRENCH MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE, COM-
MERCE, AND PUBLIC WORKS.

COMMISSION

ON

TECHNICAL INSTRUCTION,

APPOINTED BY

Imperial Decree, 22nd June 1863,

REPORT ON TECHNICAL INSTRUCTION IN
GERMANY AND SWITZERLAND,

TOGETHER WITH

DOCUMENTS LAID BEFORE THE COMMISSION.

Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY GEORGE E. EYRE AND WILLIAM SPOTTISWOODE,
PRINTERS TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

22925.

FOR HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE.

1869,

Part of Vol. 47, 1:2-69

BR DOC 650

CONTENTS.

PART I-REPORT ON THE CONDITION OF TECH-
NICAL INSTRUCTION IN GERMANY AND SWIT-
ZERLAND.

1. GENERAL REPORT ON THE ORGANIZATION OF INDUSTRIAL Edu-

CATION IN GERMANY AND SWITZERLAND

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Primary instruction

Results of primary education in France

Elementary instruction in drawing

Expenses

Apprentices

Children employed in factories

Apprentice schools (Ecoles d'apprentissage)

Improvement schools (Écoles de perfectionnement)

Similar schools in Austria

Workmens' societies (Associations volontaires d'ouvriers)

Upper middle class schools

Trade schools (Écoles industrielles)

Analogous schools in Austria

Observations on the preceding schools

Practical schools (Real Schulen)

General organization of the practical schools in Prussia

125

Advantages offered in Prussia to the students of the practical

schools

Comparison of the expenditure for public instruction in different

countries

28

2. SPECIAL REPORT ON THE EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENTS IN THE

KINGDOM OF HANOVER

30

-Primary education

- Improvement Schools (Écoles de perfectionnement) for apprentices 31

-Trade school (École industrielle) of the City of Hanover