Mr. PARKINSONasked the President of the Board of Education the number of infant schools or departments that have been merged for purposes of economy into the senior school and placed under the head master of the senior school; and how many women have in this way lost headships?
§ Mr. FISHERDuring the last six months there has been 37 cases of reorganisation in which an infants' department has been merged in a school of which the head teacher is a man. In 26 of these cases the change took place upon the resignation of the head mistress of the infants' school, or her retirement from the profession. In six of the remaining cases the Board were informed that the head mistress would be retained as an assistant mistress.