Mr. EVANSasked the President of the Board of Education what further action the Board of Education proposes to take in order to secure the additional number of men teachers who are likely to be required owing to the policy of the raising of the school-leaving age on 1st April, 1931?
§ Sir C. TREVELYANIn my answer to the hon. Member for Hackney North (Captain A. Hudson) on 12th December, of which I am sending the; hon. Member a copy, I explained that men formed half of the additional students whose admission to training colleges had been arranged. I am now negotiating with the college authorities with a view to the admission of further additional students next autumn.