REPORTS ON NORMAL SCHOOLS.

Report, for the Year 1854, on the Church of England Training Schools for Schoolmasters; by Her Majesty's Inspector of Schools, the Rev. HENRY MOSELEY, M.A., F.R.S., Canon of Bristol.

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MY LORDS, THE number of students resident at Christmas 1854, Number of in the fourteen training schools subject to your inspection, ing schools, was 675, of whom 376 were Queen's scholars. In these numbers the fact chiefly to be noted is the large proportion of Queen's scholars. Under the operation of the Minutes of 1846, these students are steadily replacing (as was to be expected) that class which has hitherto filled the training schools. Last year they constituted 28 per cent. of the whole, and the year before 15 per cent. This year they are 55 per

cent.

The progress of the training schools in respect to numbers, during the last five years, is shown in the following table :—

demand of

In my report for the year 1851-2 (p. 273), I have shown Supply and that the annual number of trained masters supplied to Church trained schools from different institutions, recognized by the National teachers, Society, had, during the ten years terminating in June 1851, averaged 259.* In the year 1853 the supply from the training

Guided by the inquiry instituted by the National Society into the state of Church schools in 1846-7 (published in 1849), I assumed, in my report for