MR. KAY-SHUTTLEWORTHasked the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education, with reference to Article 60 of the Code, 1876, When he will state what rules or principles guide the Education Department in granting or withholding the provisional certificate (for service in small schools) which, upon special recommendation by the inspector, they may give to pupil teachers who have completed their engagement with credit, and who have passed satis- 580 factorily their fifth year's examination, or that referred to in Article 94; and, whether, seeing that the grant to such small schools (with an annual average attendance of not more than sixty scholars) employing teachers of this kind, is dependent on the granting or withholding of such certificates, he will take steps to publish or embedy in the Code the rules of the Education Department on this subject? He also asked, When the new Code will be in the hands of Members?
§ VISCOUNT SANDONSir, the only condition, beyond those stated in Article 60 of the Code, which is required to enable a pupil teacher to receive a provisional certificate is, that he should be reported by one of Her Majesty's Inspectors to be an efficient teacher. As my hon. Friend has pointed out that some misunderstanding may exist on the subject, we have inserted a few words in the Code of this year to make the matter perfectly clear. I hope that in a few days the Code will be delivered to hon. Members.