§ SIR RICHARD PAGET (Somerset, Wells)I beg to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education whether his attention has been drawn to a paragraph in the last Report of the Science and Art Department, signed T. H. Huxley, Dean, in which it is recommended that—
The Courses of Agricultural Instruction at the Normal School should be made more widely known by advertisements in the agricultural newspapers";and whether, in view of the extreme difficulty of extricating from the "Directory with Regulations," published by the Department of Science and Art, and the Annual Report of the same Department, information respecting the advantages and opportunities offered by the Department to teachers and others desirous of receiving instruction in agriculture, or of the results of the examinations in agriculture, or of expenses incurred in connection therewith, he will cause a summary to be prepared, for general circulation among the managers and teachers of Rural Elementary Schools, setting out shortly all necessary information with 712 respect to the important matter above referred to?
§ THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL (Sir W. HART DYKE,) Kent, DartfordI freely acknowledge the importance of the subject-matter of this question, and I promise to see what can be done to make the advantages offered by the Science and Art Department more widely known. But it is, perhaps, as well that I should point out to my hon. Friend that one of the courses in agriculture at the Normal School of Science is not adapted to teachers of Elementary Schools, and that as regards the other—the short summer course—there are, I fear, already more applicants than can be admitted under existing circumstances.