§ MR. NANNETTI (Dublin, College Green)To ask the President of the Board of Education if he will state why it is that teachers trained in a training college in Dublin since 1900, and whose Irish diploma, forwarded on to them when they have fulfilled the prescribed conditions of training, including that of satisfactory probation as a teacher in a public elementary school for two 1365 years, are only recognised by the Board of Education in England as uncertificated and untrained teachers, and receive the salary of such, thereby depriving them of future promotion when the salary of the untrained maximum is reached unless they consent to become certificated and trained in an English college.
(Answered by Mr. Runciman.) The hon. Member's Question, so far as I understand it, does not accurately represent the facts. A teacher who has been trained in a training college, and is reported by the Irish Commissioners of National Education to have passed the revised examination and to have received a diploma, is qualified for recognition as a certificated teacher by the Board of Education, provided no adverse report has been received from the Irish Commissioners. The code makes no distinction in this matter between "trained" and "untrained" teachers.