Royal Commission on the Civil Service Second Appendix to Fourth Report of the Commissioners Minutes of Evidence 9th January 1913 - 20th June 1913 Q. 22 047 - Q. 36 550 with Appendices

Representative of the University of Oxford Representative of the Incorporated Assciation of Head Masters. [...] Representative of the Clerical Establisment of the Board of Education. [...] We have been informed by the representtives of the universities whom we have heard so far that the syllabuses of the examinations for the Civil Service have no effect upon the general course of studies in those universities ; would you say that anthing like the same rule would apply to the schools that you represent or do you so direct your instruction in the schools as to prepare students [...] Would you date your regard for the requirments of the Civil Service examinations from the rmodelling I understood you to say that in the curriulum of yOur school attention is paid to the requirments of the Civil Service examinations that you do direct instruction with regard to the examinations and my question is whether that arrangement dates from the remodelling to which you have [...] I only want to know how far the course of instruction in the great schools is influenced by the character of the Civil Service examinations P— Yes I should think the change did occur at the time when the school was to a large extent remodelled in The Evidence taken on the first fifty-three days has been published [Cd.