Captain CRAIGasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether he can state if, in case a teacher became entitled to promotion in the month of December of the current year, his promotion would date from the 1st April, 1914, or from the 1st April, 1915; whether, under the old results system, when a teacher obtained promotion at the July examinations, his promotion dated from the previous 1st of April; and can he state why the Commissioners of National Education departed from this practice when the new system was introduced?
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§ Mr. BIRRELLThe Commissioners of National Education inform me that, as a rule, a teacher is promoted from the 1st April following the completion of the period which the Commissioners consider has rendered him eligible by efficient service for promotion. The rule as regards promotion in classification under the Regulations in force prior to 1900 was practically as stated in the question, and substantially the same as the present Regulation. The promotion dated from the 1st April in the year in which the teacher passed the necessary examination, which was held in the month of July of that year. But teachers seeking promotion had to notify their intention to attend the examination on or before the 1st January, and were not admitted unless their previous service was sufficiently long and satisfactory in other respects.