§ MR. W. JOHNSON (Warwickshire, Nuneaton)I beg to ask the President of the Board of Education whether any of the head-masters or head-mistresses of the centres or secondary schools in which pupil teachers and probationers are instructed receive capitation fees on such pupils; and if so, whether, in view of the Regulations for the Instruction and Training of Pupil Teachers, Articles 15 (3) and 23, he proposes to take any action in the matter.
§ MR. BIRRELLI understand that in many secondary schools in which pupil teachers and probationers are instructed the head-teachers are paid partly by a fixed salary and partly by a capitation grant, in respect of each scholar or pupil teacher admitted. This course does not appear to be contrary to any of the provisions of Section 15 of the Regulations for the Instruction and Training of Pupil Teachers. But if the hon. Member has any particular case in which he believes irregularities exist, I will have it investigated if he will communicate it to me.