§ MR. JENKINS (Chatham)To ask the President of the Board of Education whether he is aware that the Kent Education Committee are trying to enforce that only those should be accepted as pupil teachers who have had experience in secondary schools; that at the only school of this type in Chatham and Gillingham the fees are so high as to practically exclude the children of the artisan and labouring classes; and that the local education committee at Gillingham has passed a resolution expressing its disapproval of these charges; and whether he proposes to take any, and, if any, what, action in the matter.
§ (Answered by Mr. McKenna.) As the Question only appeared this morning upon the Paper there has not been time for me to investigate the circumstances. But I will cause inquiry to be made and will see whether any improper hindrances are put in the way of the children referred to who are desirous and fit to enter the teaching profession.