§ SIR FRANCIS POWELL (Wigan)I beg to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education whether, seeing that the present forms of 1112 agreement used in the case of Church of England schools contain clauses whereby the teachers undertake to give religious as well as secular instruction to the scholars under their charge, and that the form of agreement contained in Schedule VI of the Code now before Parliament might well be construed to apply to secular instruction only, it is the intention of the Education Department to require the exclusion of :111 reference to religious instruction in the agreements between managers and teachers of Voluntary Schools?
§ SIR J. GORSTThe Committee of Council do not consider the form of agreement given in the Code capable of the construction suggested in the Question. But it is only a model, and can be altered if managers think fit.