§ Mr. J. Morganasked the President of the Board of Education whether he will arrange that educational authorities, faced with staffing difficulties due to calling up of men, shall be empowered to make replacement appointments in advance of the actual calling-up of their 1419W affected staff, seeing that many of such notices are either indeterminate for long periods or at very short call?
§ Mr. RamsbothamNo, Sir, I do not think that staffing difficulties which may arise will best be met in the way proposed. There is likely to be a number of teachers seeking employment owing to movements of population occasioned by the war, and a central register of these teachers, on which local education authorities can draw, is being established by the Association of Education Committees in co-operation with the National Union of Teachers.