MR. LEWIS PRY (Bristol, N.)I beg to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education whether, under the New Code, there will be two species of instruction in drawing in elementary schools; (1) to satisfy Article 453 85 (b) of the Code, and not entitling to a special grant for drawing; and (2) the usual drawing course under the Science and Art Department; or whether it is the intention of the Department that the compulsory drawing under the New Code shall be the last-mentioned course in all cases; and, in either case, whether it is intended that all persons holding the teacher's certificate of the Education Department shall be considered eligible, irrespective of special drawing qualification, to teach and earn grants for drawing if the instruction in that subject be satisfactory?
§ * SIR W. HART DYKEThe drawing course prescribed by the Minutes of the Science and Art Department will be the only one recognised as satisfying Article 85(b) of the Code, but, as that Article will not come into operation until September, 1891, the Department will have time to consider what modification of the existing Minute may be necessary. So long as the instruction is satisfactory I am not disposed to insist, at any rate for some time to come, upon the possession of the (D) certificate as an essential qualification in a teacher of drawing.