§ MR. BIGGAR (Cavan, W.)asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, If, at the July examinations for teachers and monitors in 1887, the superintendent at Coleraine called the attention of those being examined to the Government Training College, with the view of exhorting them to go there; if he did this by instructions from his superiors; and, if all other superintendents received similar instructions?
§ THE CHIEF SECRETARY (Mr. A. J. BALFOUR) (Manchester, E.)The Commissioners of National Education inform me that a large number of monitors, whose final examination fell due in July, 1887, had been, prior to the examination, recommended by Inspectors as suitable candidates for admission to the Marlborough Street Training College. The superintendents of the July examinations were accordingly instructed to intimate to the monitors at Coleraine, as at all other centres for examination, that, in the event of their passing satisfactorily their final examinations which they were about to undergo, they would be eligible to present themselves at the ensuing competitive examination for the vacancies to be filled in the Training College.