In outlining the following course planned for girls of sixteen to eighteen years of age, I should make it clear that it occupied only a subordinate pla in school organisation. The orthodox General Certificate of education ordina level course is taken by all girls in the school for the first five ye (with the exception of perhaps two or three in the fifth year) a we have always had a strong group for Advanced level in the Six Indeed in the four girls’ schools which I have known intimately, the Mathematics course has always been highly popular and more successful (if judg by examination results) than most other school subjects. I do not believe on such facts as I have—that there is a sex difference in mathematical abili The lower total number of girls taking the General Certificate of Educati examination is, I fancy, explained on other grounds.