Compulsory Attendance Provisions of the Irish 52. At the end of the year 1901, 83 School Attendance Commit- Irish tees existed in Urban Districts and 43 in Rural Districts, and the Education Act, 1892. provisions of the Act were enforced by 119 of these Committees. The following table shows, for the places in which the provisions of the Act were enforced and for the rest of Ireland, the average number of pupils on the Rolls of the National Schools, and the average daily attendance during the year. 53. In our last Report we promised to give in future fuller statistics regarding the extent to which the Revised Programme has been adopted in our schools, the proficiency of the pupils, and the efficiency of the Teaching Staff, and we append tables under these and other heads. As regards the first of the following tables, it will be observed that in 8,678 of the 8,692 schools in operation on the 31st December, 1901, the Revised Programme has been adopted either wholly or in part. As the new form of Annual Report on the Schools was not in use during the first quarter of the year, the information published in the Tables on pp. 40 and 41 from the Annual Reports is not given for all the schools in operation. TABLE showing by Provinces and Counties the number of Schools in which, the several subjects had been adopted, either according to Returns received from the Managers, the Revised Programme in wholly or in part, on the 31st December, 1901. 651 57 454 185 727 1,073 3,131 2,838 347 132 75 1,221 1,404 1,741 22.5 311 96.1 88.3 20.1 4.7 2.7 67.3 69.4 97.1 ALL IRELAND. Percentage to total Number of Schools in operation on 31:12:1901. 32 2,329 2,315 3,166 ULSTER." 105 1,308 1,421 2,077 MUNSTER. LEINSTER. |