§ 18 and 19. Miss LAWRENCEasked the President of the Board of Education whether he will indicate the standard and type of qualification he is prepared to approve (under Schedule I (2) (c), Grant Regulations 8) as equivalent to those ordinarily approved for uncertificated teachers; and in what respect such 1396 qualifications will differ from those demanded from supplementary teachers;
(2) whether he will explain Schedule I, Section 1 (e), of Grant Regulations No. 8, 1928, by indicating the standard and type of qualifications which he is prepared to recognise as substantially equivalent to the qualifications now recognised as entitling the teacher to a certificate; and whether, before he approves of the modification of the standard of qualification on account of the available supply of certified teachers being insufficient, he will take into account how far that available supply has been depleted by the exclusion of married women teachers?
§ Lord E. PERCYThe provisions referred to are intended to meet the case of applications for recognition from teachers trained in the Dominions and Colonies or foreign countries, and other special cases, and it is hardly practicable to indicate beforehand what would be regarded as equivalent qualifications in any particular case. I may say, however, that these provisions represent no change from those previously in force. The existence of married women teachers will be taken into account in considering the available supply.