1. A. B., who enters the college in December 1854, passes for the second year in December 1856, and forthwith enters into service as a teacher, may be certificated in the second degree in the early part of 1859. 2. C. D., who enters the college at the same date, passes for the first year in December 1855, and forthwith enters into service as a teacher, cannot be certificated above the third degree before the early part of 1863. I have the honor to be, &c. (Signed) J. Martin, Esq., Lincoln's Inn. SIR, R. R. W. LINGEN. Circular Letter to Principals of Training Schools. Committee of Council on Education, Council Office, THE returns recently made in claiming payment of the exhibitions Queen's due to Queen's scholars show that several of such students have been scholarallowed by the authorities of their colleges to withdraw from training before ships. the end of the year. I am to state that, in awarding Queen's scholarships, my Lords contemplate the exhibitioner's residence throughout the year, and his examination at the end of it. Their Lordships do not offer exhibitions for one, two, or three quarters, but only for whole collegiate years. If illness or other special circumstances arise, they should be reported to my Lords at the time. Their Lordships are ready to support the authorities by refusing to recognize, as a certificated teacher, any Queen's scholar who withdraws himself from teaching before the end of the year which is covered by his exhibition; and my Lords look to the same authorities for assistance to enforce this rule, as a condition of providing new scholarships out of the public funds. I have the honor to be, &c. (Signed) R. R. W. LINGEN. Το Principal of the Training School. SIR, Circular to Principals of Training Schools. Committee of Council on Education, Council Office, scholar I AM directed to forward, for your information, the subjoined copy of Queen's correspondence between the Committee of Council on Education and the ships. Secretary of the National School Society. Letter from the Rev. the Secretary of the National Society, containing National Society's Office, Sanctuary, Westminster, SIR, I was desired at that meeting to communicate to their Lordships the unanimous opinion of the Principals and Chaplains, representing 20 training colleges either belonging to or in union with the society, and under the inspection of H. M. Inspectors, on the four following points : 1. Whereas the payment made by their Lordships to a training school on account of a Queen's scholar is a bare remuneration for expenses actually incurred in each case for maintenance, and by no means a proportional share of the total annual cost of the institution, it seems altogether unreasonable that this should be forfeited by the college from any moral dereliction on the part of the student, and that to require a certificate of good conduct as the condition of repayment for an actual outlay must prove injurious to the moral interests of education; the college being obliged either to give a lax interpretation to the words of their credential, thus defeating the object for which it was required (a course which the Privy Council would be as little disposed to recommend as the colleges to adopt), or to suffer a loss which, as their Lordships must be well aware, can be very ill afforded. A certificate of residence appears to be all that ought with propriety to be required on this behalf. And further, as pre-payment is invariably demanded from the ordinary students, it seems to be but reasonable, and would on many accounts be most desirable, that the Queen's scholars should be placed on the same footing in this respect. 2. Since a third year's course of study is now prescribed by their Lordships' Minutes for advanced students, the Queen's scholars are virtually excluded, as a body, from the advantages to be derived from this long period of training, as no provision has been made for their maintenance at a training college for more than two years. A second renewal of the Queen's scholarships seems of necessity to be involved in the provision for a third examination. 3. Since the intercourse of Queen's scholars with ordinary students in the same institution is found to be a great advantage to both; and since it not unfrequently occurs that young men, differently circumstanced from pupilteachers, in age, social position, and previous education, but possessing great aptitude for the office of a teacher, are excluded from the benefit of training, by want of funds, there can be little question that the Committee of Privy Council would confer an important boon on the cause of education by admitting such ordinary students to compete for Queen's scholarships at the expiration of one year's residence in any training school, such students being specially recommended by the Principal. Lastly, with respect to the arrangement proposed for the ensuing examination in training schools for male students, I am desired to represent that great inconvenience will be incurred by holding the examination of pupilteachers at the same time with that of students for the first year. If the arrangement be carried out, it will be impossible to lodge a great proportion of the candidates within the walls of the college, or to bestow upon them that amount of observation which the occasion demands. To lodge them out of the college must be in all cases undesirable, and in many cases impossible. And further, the students who may be expected to attend both examinations-those for whom alone the proposed arrangement can be favourablewill be so few as not to deserve consideration in comparison with the very great inconvenience, both disciplinary and financial, which the proposed change must occasion. I am therefore requested to solicit the attention of their Lordships to the four points mentioned above, in the hope that their Lordships may be induced First. To make the payments of the Queen's scholars conditional only upon residence, and, if possible, prospective; the renewal of the scholarship being contingent upon his good conduct, as certified for the last year. Secondly. To renew the Queen's scholarship, under certain limitations, a second time, so as to enable the Queen's scholar to pass special examination at the end of the third year. Thirdly. To open the competition for Queen's scholarships to ordinary students after one year's residence in a training school. And lastly-To examine the candidate for Queen's scholarships, as was done last year, after the close of the examination of students. I have the honor to be, &c. To the Secretary of the (Signed) JOHN G. LONSDALE. REVEREND Sir, Reply to the foregoing Letter. Committee of Council on Education, Council Office, In reply to the several points of your letter dated the 1st instant, I Queen's am directed to state that, scholarships. 1. My Lords cannot dispense with the certificate on which the quarterly payments for the maintenance of Queen's scholars are issued. It appears to their Lordships that the hold of the colleges over the Queen's scholars would be weakened rather than increased by the proposal, which only shifts the incidence of the loss, but inflicts no penalty upon the delinquent who causes it. The exhibition contemplates a training, moral and intellectual, of one year, and is paid by instalments for so much of the work done. The Committee of Council has always repudiated direct responsibily for the moral character of pupil-teachers (Minutes of 1848–9, p. 110) and Queen's scholars (Minutes of 1851-2, Vol. I., p. 106). You will see upon reference to the Minutes of 1850-1 (Vol. I., p. xix) that my Lords contemplated the Queen's scholarship, in relation to the Queen's scholar, as a set-off against payments " due" from him, in the same manner as from any other student. As Queen's scholars cannot forfeit their scholarship except by misconduct or desertion, it would not be unreasonable on the part of each college to give notice, on the admission of such scholars, that the parents or guardians are chargeable for the cost of maintaining and instructing the several scholars to the extent that those scholars may forfeit their scholarships. Death, sickness, and reasonable causes for a change of destination in life, have always been, and will be, admitted by my Lords as sufficient indemnities. It appears to their Lordships that they could not take any other ground without involving the principle that the Committee of Council presents candidates of its own for training, instead of confining itself to ascertaining that the candidates presented are intellectually qualified, and have satisfied the proper judges of their moral and religious character. My Lords have too much reliance upon the attested soundness of the pupil-teacher system to expect that the necessity of forfeiture will be frequent, and too much reliance upon the high character of the training colleges to suppose that it will ever fail to be inflicted when necessary. For the reasons stated, my Lords do not consider that they can properly charge the Parliamentary Grant with the loss. 2. My Lords find that Professor Moseley has arrived at the conclusion that two years is as long a period of training as, when added to an apprenticeship of five years, suffices to fit ordinary students for the office of elementary schoolmasters. Their Lordships are of opinion that, taking the entire scale of grants as settled by the Minute of 28 June 1854 into account, it sufficiently enables the colleges to provide for a third year's course of training, to the extent that the interests of elementary education are concerned therein. 3. The Queen's scholarship has been offered hitherto as a pupil-teacher's prize. To open it beyond that body, involves a change of considerable importance. Taking into account, however, the relaxation in the number of such Two-thirds in the case of females. Examina tion of students in Training schools. scholarships allowed in December last, my Lords are not indisposed to add some force to the present competition. The authorities of training colleges may therefore name, not only Queen's scholars of the first year for renewal as at present, but also, any other student (over 20 years of age) of the same standing, for the grant of such a scholarship, during the next year. The scholarship in these cases will be awarded on the student's examination, viz., scholarships of 251.* to those placed in the first and second divisions, and 201.* to those in the third. The Principal will, of course, have to diminish his number of admissions open to new Queen's scholars, in proportion as he retains a larger margin (see Minute of 20 August 1853, sec. 3, supra, p. 10) for the scholarships of former Queen's scholars and students. The scholarships opened to the latter will not be renewable. 4. My Lords will examine the first and second year's students together, and the candidates for new Queen's scholarships afterwards by themselves. The reasons given for this change entirely convince their Lordships. I have the honor to be, &c. (Signed) R. R. W. LINGEN. From the Rev. Richard Greenall, on behalf of the Warrington Training School. 1. Are all the students who have been in residence for a full year to be offered for examination, and will this rule be considered binding on the managers? 2. Are any of those who have not resided a full year to be offered? Some difference of practice has hitherto prevailed on these points, which it seems expedient to have definitively understood. To the Secretary of the Committee of Council on Education. REVEREND SIR, I have the honor to be, &c. (Signed) RICHARD GREENALL. Reply to foregoing Letter. Committee of Council on Education, Council Office, Downing Street, 21 November 1854. In reply to the inquiries contained in your letter of the 10th instant, I am directed to state, that, 1. All students who have been in residence for one full year ought to be presented to Her Majesty's Inspector of Schools, for examination. 2. Students who have resided less than one full year should not be presented. No grants can be made for the examinations which such students may pass, and their papers add unnecessarily to the bulk (already excessive) of those which must be revised with reference to the distribution of grants. My Lords are aware that some difference of practice, which it is not always in the power of their Lordships to prevent, has prevailed in different colleges, but the foregoing explanation represents the rule which the Committee of Council desires to see uniformly adopted. To the Rev. R. Greenall, Stretton. I have the honor to be, &c. *Two-thirds in the case of females. R. R. W. LINGEN. (No. 4.) PAPERS USED AT THE GENERAL EXAMINATION. MALE STUDENTS.-FIRST YEAR. - All your answers are to be written on this paper. Answers written on any other paper will not be looked over. You are not permitted to answer more than one question in each section. Before beginning your answers, you are to fill up the following table, so far as it applies to you. 1. Where are the following places situated? State what is recorded in Scripture of one of them : Damascus, Nineveh, Babylon. 2. What are the principal rivers of Palestine? and what events are recorded in connexion with them respectively? 3. Describe the mountains of Palestine, illustrating your description by a 2. What division did the ancient Jews make of the Books of the Old Testament? what Books were included in each division, and what references are made to this division in the New Testament? 3. Give some account of the Prophet Isaiah. What are the most important subjects to which his prophecies relate? What historical facts does he record? Section 3. 1. Give an account of the life of Jacob. 2. Describe the conquest of Canaan by Joshua. 3. Give the principal events in the history of Jerusalem, with the dates. Section 4. 1. Relate the principal events in the life of one of the following kings— Rehoboam, Jeshoshaphat, Hezekiah. 2. Give some account of the nations bordering on Judea. 3. Give some account of the history of idolatry among the Jews. C |