HC Deb 17 July 1900 vol 86 cc235-6
MR. W. F. D. SMITH (Westminster)

I beg to ask the Vice-President of the Com- mittee of Council on Education whether candidates for the forthcoming examination for assistantships in the Victoria and Albert Museum are being selected by nomination; and, whether the system of nomination has been recently substituted for that of open competition; and, if so, can he say for what reason the change has been made.

THE VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL ON EDUCATION (Sir J. GORST,) Cambridge University

Assistants in the Victoria and Albert Museum are a now class, and are to be filled up by limited competition, as is done in a similar class in the British Museum.