§ Mr. EDWARDSasked the President of the Board of Education the number of qualified unemployed teachers in Wales and Monmouthshire, and the number of teachers who will leave the colleges in July next fully qualified to take positions in the schools?
Mr. WOOD:I regret I have no information to show the total number of qualified unemployed teachers in Wales and Monmouthshire. According to the latest information in my possession, 205 of the students who left the training colleges in Wales and Monmouthshire last summer had failed to obtain posts. The number of students expected to leave these training colleges next July is 793; but until 2770W they have completed their course I cannot say how many of them will be fully qualified.
§ Mr. EDWARDSasked the President of the Board of Education whether, seeing that the Board has held out inducements since the War for young persons to enter the teaching profession and that there is now so much unemployment amongst this class for which the Board is responsible, he will take steps to provide them with maintenance, since they are ineligible for unemployment pay and are forced through circumstances to apply for poor relief?