EDUCATIONAL COMMITTEE. Time committee on education was established in 1839 by an Order in Council for the purpose of promoting educa tional legislation and administering moneys voted by the ('ominous for school buildings and teach ers' training colleges. The funds thus voted were turned over by the committee to two societies for the encouragement of elementary education among the poor, and provision was made for the inspection of schools by Crown officers. The encouragement of pupil teachers by scholarships in training colleges and the offer of salaries, made possible by the grants of 1846, and the administration of special funds for the increase in the salaries of trained teachers, also devolved upon this committee. The importance of the committee was greatly increased when in 18132 the distribution of moneys in aid of schools was made dependent on the character of their work. The committee of the Privy Council has charge mainly of the disposition of Government grants for public elementary educa tion, the curricula. and the certification of teach ers engaged in subsidized schools. The act of 1870 has increased its importance by investing it with the additional power of appointing school boards in cases where existing hoards neglect their duties. In Doo the Education De
partment, including the Department of Science and Art, was placed under the Board of Educa tion for England and Wales, consisting of the Lord President of the Council, the principal Secretaries of State, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Consult: Stubbs, Constitutional History of England (Oxford, 1894-97) ; Smith, History of the English, Parliament (London, 1892) ; (theist, History of the English. Constitution (London, ISM) ; Macpherson, Practice (new ed., ib., 1873) ; Macqueen, Appellate Jurisdiction of the Pricy Council (ib., 1842) ; Finlason. The Judicial Com mittee of the Privy Council (ib., 1873) : Wheeler, Priry Council Lair (ib., 1893) ; Dicey, Priry Council (new ed., ib.. 1887) ; Anson, Lau• and Custom of the Constitution (Oxford, 1892) ; Acts of tltc Privy Council, new series, vols. 1-16, ed. by J. B. Da sent ( London. 1890-1901).