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the history of Leyton and Leytonstone
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Education (continued)
the later Victorian and Edwardian times 1890 to 1919
4 Andrew Saint in the Victorian Society’s magazine of March 2007; ‘‘Education, education, education’: researching the 1902 Education Act’ by Roger Ottewill in BALH’s ‘The Local Historian’ November 2007
Under the Education Act of 1902 the responsibilities of (directly elected) school boards were transferred (in 1903) to local councils 4.
Whilst basic education was free, the County High Schools - one for girls and one for boys - and the Technical Institute charged fees. They were taught some subjects at the Technical Institute (photo right) girls with boys, where they could not study electricity or ‘manual instruction’, and botany, needlework and cookery were taught only to girls.
