§ Mr. SAMUEL ROBERTSasked the President of the Board of Education whether it is the practice of the Board to recommend the enforcement of any penalty against those teachers who, on entering a training college, have given a bond that they will teach 18 months in an elementary school on leaving the college, or pay a sum of £75 to the college authorities in lieu of the loss occasioned by the non-payment of the Government grant allowed when such teaching has been done, and who, being unable to find any employment in the teaching profession, have been compelled to seek other work?
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§ Mr. RUNCIMANThe undertaking to which the hon. Member presumably refers contains the following clause:—
(c) If it is shown to the satisfaction of the Board that any such failure as aforesaid has been caused by illness, by inability (not due to the student's own default) to find employment at the current rate of salary payable to teachers of the same grade and sex, or by any other cause which in the opinion of the Board was not due to the default of the student, the period during which the failure so caused continues shall not be taken into account in calculating the period of default.
(See Training College Regulations, Appendix B (I.), Paragraph 5 (c.)