§ MR. PICTON (Leicester)I beg to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education whether he will re-consider the possibility of devising means to encourage collegiate training for teachers without permanently maintaining throughout an experienced teacher's life the distinction laid down in Article 73 of the New Code; whether he will substitute the terms "collegiate," and "non-collegiate," for "trained," and "untrained," where the purpose is to distinguish teachers with the double training of pupil-teachership and college from those who have only the training of pupil teachers; and whether, in Article 61, he will omit the words "will not be permitted to superintend pupil teachers," and substitute "will not be recognised as certificated," thus offering an incentive to secure the advantages of a training college?
§ *THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL (Sir W. HART DYKE,) Kent, DartfordThe hon. Member is mistaken in supposing that the distinction laid down in Article 73 will be permanently maintained throughout an experienced teacher's life, as it ceases to apply to any teacher who obtains charge of a school. I have already intimated my intention to substitute other words for the terms "trained" and "untrained;" but an alteration of Article 61 in the way suggested would not, in my opinion, offer the desired incentive, and lies altogether outside the scope and object of the Article in question.