§ Mr. T. P. O'CONNORasked the President of the Board of Education whether Irish trained elementary teachers, recognised certificated by the Board of Education without further academic or professional qualifications than those they possessed in Ireland, are denied, for salary purposes, their previous Irish teaching services, which must necessarily have been equivalent to certificated 586W service in England; whether, in consequence, an Irish trained teacher in certificated service in Manchester, and who has a total of 11 years' teaching experience, is obliged to accept a salary of £178 8s. 6d. for the current year; and whether, in view of such apparently unjust treatment, the Board are prepared to consider the salary claims of teachers with Irish service?
§ Mr. FISHERFor the purposes of Section 9 of their Report upon standard scales of salary for teachers within the elementary school system in England and Wales, the Burnham Committee have not recommended the acceptance of any service outside England and Wales and, for special reasons, Scotland. In present circumstances, I cannot undertake a revision of the recommendations of the Burnham Committee in a direction which would involve increased expenditure.