Mr. WEST RUSSELLasked the President of the Board of Education whether, under his new proposal to enable local education authorities to enter into agreements with the managers of non-provided schools for purposes of reorganisation, the teachers appointed to give special religious instruction will in all cases be professing adherents of the religious views they are asked to impart to the children?
§ Sir C. TREVELYANThe suggestion is that the managers should have the right to be satisfied that the teachers appointed to give special religious instruction are willing and competent to do so. No doubt these teachers would generally be professing members of the denomination concerned, but this would not be prescribed as an essential qualification, any more than it is by the present law.