§ COLONEL HOWARD VINCENTI beg to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education whether he will consider the advisability of instituting scholarships from Imperial sources, whereby a limited number of teachers could, by residence abroad, become competent teachers of foreign languages in our Normal Colleges and Technical Institutes; and whether he is aware that such travelling scholarships have existed for some years in France and Germany, so that French and German students reside in England in order to become competent Professors of English, and are then engaged in French and German schools?
§ MR. ACLANDI am aware that travelling scholarships of the kind mentioned exist in France and Germany with great advantage to the teaching of English in these countries. In this 485 country, the only class of teachers under Government supervision are those employed in, or being trained for employment in, public elementary schools. A provision was arranged some months ago, and has been inserted in the New Code, by which students in training colleges may, after two years' training in the college, receive a third year's training which may be taken abroad, and for which their training college may receive an Imperial grant. Such additional training will be recognised by a special entry on their certificates.