§ MR. H. SAMUELSONasked the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education, Whether Certificated Elementary Teachers are at present excluded from filling the appointment of Inspectors of Elementary Schools, and if that be the case, if he would consider the advantage of removing that restriction would act as an additional inducement to men of ability to become Teachers in the Primary Schools?
§ MR. W. E. FORSTERsaid, in reply, that elementary teachers were not at present excluded from filling the appointment of Inspectors. There were two Rules which guided his noble Friend (the Marquess of Ripon), with whom the appointment of Inspectors absolutely rested; the Vice President had nothing to do with it. Of these two Rules, one was a Treasury Rule, that the persons appointed should not be over 35 years of age. The other was a Rule which his noble Friend thought expedient—namely, that no person should be appointed who had not taken University honours. It was possible that these two Rules, the first of which applied not only 1589 to Inspectors, but to other appointments, might make it difficult for certificated teachers to become Inspectors.