(d) Teachers in night schools. (a) Assistant teachers of three years' standing. (2) In the rudiments of algebra,* or the practice of land surveying* and levelling. (1) That in each year of their apprenticeship they shall have acquitted themselves creditably upon examination before Her Majesty's Inspector, and shall have produced unqualified testimonials from the managers and teachers of their schools.

Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. 1.

You are required, without permanently lowering the standard at present maintained, to reach a class of schools hitherto unable to fulfil the conditions of public assistance. This certificate to be verified by reference to the written exercises of the students. (4) That we are ready to submit to any audit of our accounts for building which your Lordships may direct, to make such periodical reports respecting the state of our schools as your Lordships may call for, and to admit your Lordships' Inspectors, according to the annexed Regulation, Marked (A). With a view to prevent any loss (so far as is consistent with the objects of the Supplementary Minute and with the considerations stated in this letter), the Lord President proposes to allow the usual grants at the end of one year's training for all Students, whether Queen's scholars or not, who, on passing the prescribed examination are: (a) More than twenty-four years of age; (b) more than twenty-two years of age, and in the second class of merit; (c) ex-assistants, pursuant to Sec.

exceptions to the last statement; but they also prove how far the average sum of £15 7s.

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THEIR Lordships resolved You are required, without permanently lowering the standard at present maintained, to reach a class of schools hitherto unable to fulfil the conditions of public assistance.

Now this latter sum, when divided among 433 students, gives less than £15 7s. The students in residence will be classed at the end of each year according to the result of the examinations passed by them, but will not be certificated. is equal to £20 4s.

For the present, my Lords will be satisfied if the school be under a registered teacher. per week, at least, shall be paid for the education of every scholar by his or her parents, guardians, or friends, and that in no case in which the attendance or school-pence of any scholar are reckoned, shall the charge exceed 4d. CIRCULAR TO HER MAJESTY'S INSPECTORS OF SCHOOLS, EXPLANATORY OF FOREGOING MINUTE, DATED 2ND JUNE, 1856, RELATING TO QUEEN'S SCHOLARS AND STUDENTS IN TRAINING COLLEGES At the end of the first year, pupil teachers will be examined by the Inspector:- Assistant teachers of three years standing and upwards may be examined for certificates of merit, but will not be admissible to receive pecuniary augmentation on account of them, except on fulfilment of the conditions at present in force for such grants.

(3) In grammar, to be able to parse sentences, with a thorough knowledge of the rules of syntax.

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SUPPORT OF NORMAL SCHOOLS In the meantime my Lords wish the attention of Her Majesty's Inspectors to be directed to the subject. (5) In addition to the candidates admitted by competition, Queen's scholarships will continue to be offered to the following persons:- (5) No adequate encouragement is offered to prolong the continuance of students under training beyond a single year. Edinburgh Review, Longmans, Green & Co.; First Edition (January 1, 1842).

This is a point which you will do well to note yourself, and to impress upon others. In Church of England schools, the parochial clergyman, and in other schools, the managers, will also certify that the pupil teachers or stipendiary monitors have been attentive to their religious duties.

(a) Read books of general information fluently. 9. Their Lordships will not overlook the state of the school registers in deciding upon the augmentation grants of certificated teachers. (4) To know the geography of Great Britain and Palestine. (d) Teachers in night schools. (3) To modify the system of examination at the end of the first year's residence, so far as to add to the present classes a schedule of students who are to be required to take up the first year's subjects again (viz., at the end of the second year), but without forfeiture of their scholarships, or of the lowest grant to the college in respect of tile past year's training; provided, however:- (2) Various remonstrances have been addressed to my Lords on the subject of the amount of attendance required; and it has been urged that the condition, as it stands, will confine the aid afforded within limits too narrow to admit of any practical effect. (5) That every assistant produce the same annual certificates as are required of apprentices, from the managers and principal teacher of the school, and be favourably reported of by Her Majesty's Inspector as to attainments and practical skill. At the close of each year, pupil teachers or stipendiary monitors will be required to present certificates of good conduct from the managers of the school, and of punctuality, diligence, obedience, and attention to their duties from the master or mistress. be expected to show increased skill as sempstresses, and teachers of sewing, knitting, etc. [page 321]

(1) To extend the provisional measure (Minute of 20th August, 1853), "whereby pupil-teachers admitted before 1st January, 1854, may continue to receive the rate of payment for the fifth year during the period to elapse between the end of that year and the 31st of the following December", so far as to allow the period in question to be passed either in the pupil-teacher's own school, or at a training college under inspection, provided that the principal of the college (with the consent of the managers of the pupil-teacher's own school) apply to the Committee of Council for the pupil-teacher's admission, and forward a written authority from the parent or guardian of the pupil-teacher to receive, on his or her account, the payment due on 31st December.

[page 299] (3) Geography. The Minutes of 1846 contemplate three years as the period of training, and their Lordships do not now regard such a term as excessive. As the grant increases, so must the income of the school be proved to keep pace.

Other cookies are used to boost performance and guarantee security of the website. The Lord President communicated to their Lordships the Regulations which he had caused to be framed to carry in to execution the Minute of the Committee of Council on Education of 25th day of August, 1846, respecting the Apprenticeship of Pupil Teachers. In reply to this argument it must be stated that, as a matter of fact, the full fee is not received from the whole number of paying students. If there be any colleges in which the room not now occupied by Queen's scholars is filled by other students (equally qualified to pass the examination at the end of the year) who pay the nominal fee, such cases may indeed form.

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This he may very readily do by keeping a separate list of such children, and habituating them to stand out at some such call as "boys above nine, first [or second] division." 3.

It consists of the heads of state or government of the member states, together with its President and the President of the Commission. (8) In their ability to drill* a class in marching and exercises; and to conduct it through the class movements required for preserving order.

That it is divided into classes; and that the instruction is skilful, and is graduated according to the age of the children and the time they have been at school, so as to show that equal care has been bestowed on each class.

The principal of each training school will be called upon to make a return to their Lordships of the names of his Queen's scholars for the ensuing year within twenty-one days after the date of publishing the list. Their Lordships further resolved:- As the admission of the pupil-teachers into provisional residence during the current year of training, in the normal colleges, will act soonest upon those colleges which are comparatively empty, and may so far tend to cut off a portion of the supply of pupil-teachers who would otherwise have resorted to colleges now full, their Lordships have thrown open the examination for Queen's scholarships to a new class of competitors, and they anticipate that a considerable supply of candidates may be found among young persons who are now assistants in private schools, among untrained schoolmasters and schoolmistresses desirous of improving their attainments, among Sunday school teachers, and, generally, among all those individuals with a natural aptitude for the work of instruction who become known from time to time to the clergy and other promoters of education, and who, with a little preparatory assistance in their private studies, may readily be made to reach the standard of examination.