§ MR. SEXTONasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Why persons trained in the new Training Colleges for National Teachers for Ireland, and who have attained Second Class, by due compliance with regulations, before entering for the course of training, are not permitted, at the expiration of that course, to compete for admission to the grade of First Class Teachers; whether he is aware that Second Class Teachers who go into the Colleges are in some cases obliged to go for examination in Third Class papers, and thus compete for admission to a lower class than that which they had reached before they entered the College; and, whether the practice will be altered so as to enable those who use the Training Colleges to go forward from the classification they had reached at the period of their entry?
§ MR. CAMPBELL-BANNERMANThe Commissioners of National Education inform me that persons circumstanced as described in the first paragraph of the Question are eligible, on the termination of their course of training, for examination as candidates for the first class, if recommended by the authorities of the Training Colleges. The facts are not, I am informed, as stated in the second paragraph of the Question. In these circumstances, there does not appear to be any necessity for the change of practice suggested by the hon. Member.