§ MR. JESSE COLLINGS (Birmingham, Bordesley)I beg to ask the President of the Board of Education if he can state the number of pupils in the colleges and other centres for training teachers for elementary schools who were examined during the past year in gardening, horticultural, and rural science generally; and how many, if any, of such colleges and centres had land connected with them for the practical teaching of such subjects.
§ MR. RUNCIMANI must refer the hon. Member to the Answer which I gave upon this subject on the 12th March last. I may say that the first examination in the new optional, course in rural science was held this summer and that nine students entered for it.