The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-05 00:00:00

EDUCATION.

The minutes of the Committee of the Council on Edu-
cation (in August and December last) have just been
printed by Parliament. The following are extracted
therefrom:—
" IMIUNERATION AND DUTIES OF SCIIOOLMASTER9 AND
MISTRESSES.
" At the close of each of these years, if the pupil
teachers have received a certificate of good character and
of satisfactory progress, the master or mistress by wham
they have been instructed and trained shall be paid the
sum of 51. for one, of 91. for two, of 12/. for three pupil
teachers, and 31. per annum more for every additional
apprentice; and, on the like conditions, 2/. 10s. for one
stipendiary monitor, 4/. for two, 61. for three, and 11. les.
in addition in each year, for every additional stip(ndiary
monitor.
" In addition to the foregoing subjects of instruction,
if the pupil teachers be skilfully trained by the master
in the culture ,of a garden or in some mechanical arts
suitable to a school of industry, or the female pupil
teachers be instructed by the mistress in cutting out
clothes, and in cooking, baking, or washing, as well as
in the more usual arts of sewing and knitting, and the
inspector certify that the pupil teachers are thereby in a
satisfactory course of training for the management of a
school of industry, the master or mistress will receive an
additional gratuity, proportioned to the degree of skill
and care displayed.
" In consideration of the foregoing gratuity, and of
the assistance obtained from the pupil teachers and sti-
pendiary monitors in the instruction and management of
the school, the master will give them instruction in the
prescribed subjects, during ono hour and a half at least,
.durinc, five days in the week, either before or after the
usual hours of school-keeping.
" The stipends will be liable to be withdrawn by their
Lordships on the report of their inspector, on proof of
the continued ill-health of the pupil, teachers, or stipen-
.diary monitors, or of misconduct, want of punctuality,
diligence, or skill, or-failure in their examination, or to
default pf the required certificates.
SUPPORT OF NORMAL SCHOOLS.

EDUCATION OF SCHOOLMASTERS AND MISTRESSES, AND
GRANTS IN AID OF THEIR. SALARIES.

41 Exhibitions on behalf of successful Pupil Teachers to
Normal Schools—Employment of certain of them in
,the Public Service—Grants in aid of Expenses of Nor-
mal Schools, and of the Salaries of Masters and Mis •
treoes educated therein.
" The.' Committee of Council on Education had under
their comideration their Lordships' minutes as to the
apprentieesLip of pupil teachers in elementary schools.
" It appeared further expedient to their Lordships, that
the Lord Presidtnt should authorise one or more of her
Majesty's Inspectors, together with the principal of a
normal school under inspection, to submit to his Lord-
ship, from among the pupil teachers who had success-
fully terminated their apprenticeship, a certain number
of those who, upon competition in a public examination,
to be annually held by such inspectors and principal in
eh inspector's district, as might be found most proficient
• n their studies and skilful in the art of teaching. and
concerning whose character and zeal for the office of
teachers the inspector of the district could give the most
favourable report.
" That the Committee of Council on Education, on
comparison of the testimonials and examination papers
itthese apprentices, should award. for as many as they
tight think fit, an exhibition of' 201. or 251. to one of 11
e normal schools under the inspection of her Majesty's
inspectors.
That the pupil teachers to whom such exhibitions
should be awarded, should be thenceforth denominated
4 Queen's Scholars
"That the *
exhibition should be liable to be withdrawn
if the principal of
satisfied with the the training-school should be dis-
Queen's Scholar.' conduct, attainments, or skill of the
"Their Lordships werealso of opinion, that it might
be useful to offer further
co,ttives to exertion and good
conduct among the pupil teachers, opening to such
of them as might not display by
ghest qualifications
for the office of schoolmaster,but whose conduct and
of obtain-
rsuch regu-
lations were satisfactory, an opportunity
inw employment in the public servie u
lations as may be hereafter adopted.
"'Their Lordships hope that the grant of an exhibition
•of 20/. or 251. to the most proficient pupil teachers, to
.enable them to enter a normal school, may diminish the
difficulty experienced by the trustees and managers of
Each institutions, of maintaining them in efficiency.
In
Circler still further to reduce the burden of such esta-
blishments, their Lordships will award to every normal
a(kiiiipl, subject to inspection a grant for every student
_keneG herein, concerning whose character and conduct
the prin'tipal shall give a favourable report, and concern-1
ing ,whgoil attainments, skill in teaching, and genera
aptitude the vocation of a schoolmaster, it shall tsp.
tear td. - Lord President, at the close of each of three
years ining from the report of one or more of her
'411a.1 nspectors, and from the examination papers,
tile 4,,d tam standard of merit has been attained.

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