Anglo -Egyptian Sudan 63 ] EDUCATIONAL three years. The number of pupils in 1916 was 50 . (5 ) Instructional Workshops. For the technical education of boys who have attended a kuttab. They are three in number (at Gordon College, Omdurman, and Kassala ) . The workshops are staffed by Britisti managers and assistants with Egyptian artisans to help them . Age of admission , 14 years. Length of course, 5 years when possible. Subjects taught: car pentry, smiths ' work, fitting machine-running, , masonry, pottery, cotton-ginning, &c . The number of pupils at the three workshops in 1916 was 154 , 53 , and 35 respectively. The total number of pupils under instruction by the Education Department was 4,118 in 1911 and 5,226 in 1913 , 5,000 of these latter being Moslems. Affiliated to the Gordon College are the Wellcome Government Research Laboratories, where investiga tions are carried on in connection with human, plant, and animal diseases , and with the economic products of the country . A Central Research Farm has been organised at Khartum North , underthe auspices of the Education Department , for the furtherance of agricul tural research and education . Laboratories have been built for the study of agricultural botany, physiology, and bacteriology. Comparative field experiments with such staple crops as cotton, wheat, and lubia are supplemented by the study of plant introduction, seed selection, horticulture, experimental forestry, and market gardening. The geological survey, the antiqui ties service, andthe natural history museum are also attached to the Education Department. From the opening of Gordon Collegeat Khartum (on November 8 , 1902 ) to the present day the system of public education in the northern Sudan, of which that college is the very keystone, has developed on lines carefully thought out. Alike,the system and its administration are altogether admirable . The whole welfare of the country ,both present and future, is bound up with it .