Mr. POYNTER (for Mr. Ramsay Mac-donald)asked the President of the Board of Education whether his attention has been drawn to a memorandum issued by the National Association of Teachers of the Deaf, complaining that the regulations issued in 1909 inflict injustice on old teachers; whether the Board has considered this memorandum; and whether it proposes to modify the provisions, so that teachers that have been serving for a certain number of years may be exempt from disqualifications applying to the promotion of assistants and the transference of head teachers from one school to another?
§ Mr. RUNCIMANThe memorandum referred to has come into my hands for the first time to-day, and I have not yet had time to consider it. The Board had, however, previously received a communication on the subject from the Council of Headmasters of Institutions for the Deaf, and they are considering the desirability of including in the next issue of the Regulations a provision to the effect that teachers of the deaf who have been so engaged for a certain period, but do not possess the qualifications prescribed by the regulations for head teachers, shall not on that account alone be debarred from promotion to headships.