§ MR. W. WILLIAMS (Swansea, District)On behalf of the hon. Member for Cardiganshire, I beg to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education whether the National School at Llanarth, in the County of Cardigan, is still on the list of grant-earning schools, and, if so, whether his attention has been called to the fact that since March, 1893, it has not been conducted by a duly qualified person, but from that date to March, 1894, has been 1352 under a master previously disqualified, and is now under the charge of a person possessing no qualifications, and who has been fined by the Aberayron Bench of Magistrates; and whether the School Board for the district is justified, under those circumstances, in accepting attendance at this school as the attendance required by law?
§ THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL (Mr. ACLAND,) York, W.R., RotherhamFrom March, 1893, till the end of February, 1894, this school was conducted by a disqualified teacher, and 11 months' grant was consequently forfeited. Since then temporary arrangements have, I understand, been going on, but the Department have no information as to who is in charge of the school at the present moment. The school has not as yet been removed from the list of public elementary schools, and until this has been done attendances at the school satisfy the conditions laid down in the bye-laws. But I have now intimated to the Managers that unless a certificated teacher is appointed without further delay, the school will forthwith be removed from the list.