§ MR. REEDasked the Vice President of the Council, Whether first and second class Certificates held by teachers under the Local Government Board, and entitling them to the charge of pupil teachers in workhouse schools, will be acknowledged by the Education Department as a full qualification for service in public elementary schools?
§ MR. W. E. FORSTER, in reply, said, it had not been the practice of the Education Department to acknowledge first and second-class certificates held by teachers under the Local Government Board, and entitling them to the charge of pupil teachers in workhouse schools, as a full qualification for service in public elementary schools. He feared that the rule could not be relaxed. The Education Department were responsible for elementary education as far as certificates were concerned, and the prescribed conditions with regard to those 947 certificates must be adhered to. Besides, relaxing the rule would not enlarge the supply of teachers; it would simply bring teachers from one school to another.