§ MR. S. HERBERTI beg to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education whether his attention has been called to the delay of the Education Department in announcing the result of the examination of the students who have not taken their degrees in the various Colleges for teachers' certificates; whether the result of the examination held in June last year was not announced, and the certificates not issued, until January, 1893, six months after; and whether he will take steps to prevent such delay in future?
§ THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL (Mr. ACLAND, York,) W.R., RotherhamThese examinations in connection with the newly-founded Day Training Colleges were conducted last year under conditions of a somewhat tentative and experimental character, and after the results had been tabulated it was found expedient to suspend their issue till the Department had communicated with the authorities of the Colleges with regard to certain matters which required revision. In future there will, I hope, be no such reason for delay, and the results may be expected to be issued two mouths earlier. But as many of the Day Training College students present themselves for University examinations which are not held till October, it will not be possible to issue complete lists before November.