Appendix—E

Finsbury Training College for Schoolmasters of Middle and Higher Schools.

Opened 19th February, 1883.

This College has been established for the purpose of providing a sound, practical, and scientific training for those whose intention it is to become masters in middle and higher schools. The Council have obtained the City of London Middle Class School as a practising school. The course of study in the upper division of the College is of one year's duration, and is specially arranged to meet the requirements of the teachers' examination of the University of Cambridge and the London teachers' diploma. It includes practical work in school classes; the physiological basis of education, especially in relation to health and to the development of the mental faculties; the elements of mental and moral science in their application to the education of children; the history of education; and the examination and criticism of various methods of teaching school subjects. Technical lectures on school management, organization, apparatus, &c., are provided. The students spend some hours every day, during the course, in teaching or observing lessons given in the practising school, under the constant supervision of the Principal. A lower course is organised for students under eighteen.

The Council includes among others the following gentlemen:—Rev. Dr. Butler, head-master of Harrow School; Rev. G. C. Bell, M.A., head-master of Marlborough College; Rev. W. Haig Brown, L.L.D., head-master of Charterhouse; Oscar Browning, Esq., senior fellow of King's College, Cambridge; The Very Rev. the Dean of Westminster; H. W. Eve, Esq., M.A., head-master of University College School, London; J. G. Fitch, Esq., H.M.I.S.; Rev. F. B. Guy, D.D., head-master of Forest School, Walthamstow; Rev. T. W. Jex-Blake, D.D., head-master of Rugby; Rev. Brooke Lambert, vicar of Greenwich; Samuel Morley, Esq., M.P.; Frederick Pennington, Esq., M.P.; Rev. Canon Percival, D.C.L., president of Trinity College, Oxford; Rev. G. Ridding, D.D., head-master of Winchester College; Rev. T. W. Sharpe, H.M. Inspector of Training Colleges; Henry Sidgwick, Esq., Trinity College, Cambridge; F. Storr, Esq., chief-master of Modern Subjects, Merchant Taylors' School; Rev. E. Thring, M.A., head-master of Uppingham School; Rev. J. M. Wilson, M.A., head-master of Clifton College; R. Wormell, Esq., D.Sc., head-master of Middle Class Schools, Cowper Street, E.C.

Further information may be obtained on application to the Principal—H. Courthope Bowen, Esq., M.A., The Schools, Cowper Street, City Road, London.