§ MR. PICTON (Leicester)I beg to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education whether he will send the examination papers worked by the pupil teachers who failed at the last scholarship examination to the Inspectors of the schools where these pupils teachers were apprenticed, with instructions to report whether in the case of any, and, if so, of which, schools there is sufficient evidence of neglect on the part of the mauagers as to the instruction of the pupil teachers to make it advisable for the Department, under Article 34 of the Code, to decline further recognition of pupil teachers on the staff; and, if not, whether he will take any other steps to give effect to that article, which it has been slated on behalf of the Department is at present a dead letter?
§ THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL (Mr. ACLAND,) York, W.R., RotherhamI have carefully considered the suggestions of my hon. Friend, and I believe the best course will be to send a Circular to the Inspectors calling special attention to this Article, and also to deal with the subject in the Revised Instructions to Inspectors next year. I will arrange that this shall be done. I ought, perhaps, to add that in a considerable number of cases managers have had their attention specially called to this Article, with the result that greater attention has been paid by them to the instruction of their pupil teachers.