§ MR. MASTERMAN (West Ham, N.)I beg to ask the President of the Board of Education, whether, if a training college is removed from the list of recognised colleges in consequence of failure to comply with the new regulations as to admission of students, it will still be possible for students attending it to enter for the examination of students in training colleges held by the Board, and to be recognised by the Board subsequently for professional purposes as fully as if they had been at a training college in receipt of grants.
§ MR. McKENNAA training college which fails to comply with the new regulation requiring students to be admitted without regard to religious belief or social antecedents will be liable to removal from the list of colleges recognised as eligible to receive Government grants. It may, however, after removal from the list, continue to be accepted by the Board as a place suitable for the training of teachers for public elementary scohols if the Board are satisfied as to its educational efficiency, and students attending it may in that case be admitted to the Board's examination on the same conditions as students who are trained in recognised colleges, and will be eligible 37 in that way to become certificated teachers, though no grants can be paid on their account. Arrangements will be made, when occasion arises, for the establishment of a list of certified training colleges (on the lines of the Board's list of efficient secondary schools) which would comprise all the training colleges both grant-earning and non-grant-earning, recognised as efficient by the Board of Education.