§ 43. Mr. Sextonasked the President of the Board of Education whether he will give special consideration to the institution of a short specialised course of physical training for unemployed teachers to enable them to obtain employment as instructors in schools, thus assisting in 22 the Board's activities in improving the physical welfare of the pupils and at the same time giving hope to a body of young men and women who have already undergone a course of training in the training colleges?
§ The Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education (Mr. Shakespeare)There are already a number of courses of varying duration in physical training for teachers who have left the normal training colleges and who may or may not have obtained posts, and it is proposed to increase the number of these courses. I do not think that the number of teachers who remain long out of employment after leaving the training colleges would be sufficient to justify special courses for them.
§ 44. Mr. Sextonasked the President of the Board of Education whether he will consider circularising the local education authorities asking them to give favourable consideration to employing unemployed teachers wherever and whenever feasible on evening-class teaching?
§ Mr. ShakespeareIt is open to local authorities in making appointments to evening schools to give preference to teachers who have no other employment, provided always that they are suitably qualified for the purpose, but this is a matter I must leave to the authorities' discretion.