§ Captain RAMAGEasked the President of the Board of Education if he is aware that women teachers who, with the sanction of the Board, served in military hospitals during the War are now penalised for their war service by not being allowed to count those years for purposes of salary; that men teachers who performed similar service in military hospitals, as members of the Royal Army Medical Corps, have been accorded this right; and if he will reconsider the case of those women teachers who, although ineligible for service in His Majesty's forces, yet served as members of the voluntary aid detachments at military rates of pay, with a view to placing them on the same footing, in respect of their war service, as those men teachers who rendered similar service?
§ Mr. TREVELYANThe war service of women teachers has been treated for salary purposes as on the same footing as that of those men teachers who did not serve as embodied members of His Majesty's forces. Their position has been fully considered at a very recent date, when Circular 1318 was under preparation, and I regret I am not in a position to extend the arrangements made in the Board's Circulars 1227 and 1318 to women members of voluntary aid detachments.