§ MR. TALBOT (Oxford University)I beg to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education whether he is aware that students in residential training colleges have little more than four months to prepare for the matriculation examination at the London University, whereas students in the new day training colleges have the full academic year for the same purpose; and whether he proposes to remedy this apparent injustice?
§ *THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL (Sir W. HART DYKE,) Kent, DartfordI am aware of the apparent anomaly; but it must not be forgotten that the day students have to pass their examination in technical subjects also in June, whereas the residential students have theirs deferred until December. It may be said, therefore, that although day students have the advantage on the matriculation examination, the residential students have the advantage on the certificate examination, as a whole, and can devote the first part of the year chiefly to academic, and the second to technical subjects.