§ MR. PICTON (Leicester)I beg to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education whether it is correct, as stated in The Schoolmaster, that, in 1892, 1,964 girls and 842 boys, and, in 1893, 2,061 girls and 907 boys, failed to pass the Queen's Scholarship Examination; or, if not, what are the correct figures; and whether the Department, under Article 34 of the Code, have declined to recognise pupil teachers on the staff of any, and, if so, of how many, of the schools at which these pupil teachers who failed in the examination were apprenticed?
§ THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL (Mr. ACLAND,) York, W.R., RotherhamThe figures mentioned in the hon. Member's question are correct for 1892, but those for 1893 ought to be 2,063 and 905 respectively. I am not able to say in how many schools the provision of Article 34 of the Code as to declining to recognise pupil teachers has been put in force.