ABSTRACT
ONE of the first tasks which the new Board of Education set itself after 1902 was to raise the standard of education in its secondary schools, believing it better, at this stage, 'to establish a standard of quality rather than to hasten an increase in quantity'. 1 As the best means to this end it advocated a system of high fees, mitigated, in certain cases, by free places or scholarships, and refused, under ordinary circumstances, to recognize a school in which no fees were charged.
