§ MR. YOXALLI beg to ask the Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education, seeing that the women sub-inspectors employed by the Board of Education have recently all been promoted to be junior inspectors, with advancement in status, pay, and rate of allowances, whether the same promotion is to be extended to the men sub-inspectors, and if not, can he explain why similar treatment is not given to them; whether appointments to the junior inspectorate 595 are to be limited, wholly or partly, to persons who have graduated, or have passed examinations equal to graduation at the universities of Oxford or Cambridge; and will he lay upon the Table the regulations to be in force for appointments to the inspectorate of schools.
§ SIR J. GORSTThe women sub-inspectors have never been regarded by the Board of Education as belonging to the same category as the men sub-inspectors. The latter are eligible for promotion to inspectorships. It is not intended to restrict the choice of junior inspectors to any particular class. The responsibility of the Lord President for making these appointments cannot be limited by regulations previously laid on the Table of the House.