§ Mr. THOMAS DAVIESasked the President of the Board of Education how many entrants to the teaching profession connected with elementary education have been refused permission to go on with 611W their training owing to inability to teach during the past two years while pupil teachers, while bursars, while student teachers, and while in training colleges, respectively?
§ Mr. FISHERDuring the two years from August, 1916, to August, 1918, twelve students in training colleges were dismissed or withdrew owing to incapacity for the teaching profession. The corresponding figures as to the other classes of candidates referred to in the question are made up at the end of a period of years dating from their first recognitions. Of the candidates first recognised in the two years from 1913 to 1915, thirty-five were dismissed or withdrew owing to incapacity before proceeding to a training college. Of these twenty-three had been pupil teachers and twelve had been bursars and student teachers.