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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 42
Part II. — Training Colleges
Part II.
Training Colleges.
Section I.
| (a.) | A college for boarding, lodging, and instructing candidates for the office of teacher in elementary schools; and |
| (b.) | A practising school, in which such candidates may learn the exercise of their profession. |
84. No grant is made to a training school unless the Department is satisfied with the premises, management, and staff.
Section II.
Grants to Training Colleges.
85. Annual grants are made to practising schools (Article 83 b) on the same conditions as to other public elementary schools.
| (a.) | completes the prescribed period of probation (Article 51), and becomes qualified to receive a certificate as a teacher in a public elementary school, or in a training college; |
| (b.) | is reported by the proper department in each case to have completed a like period of good service as an elementary teacher in the Army or Royal Navy, or (within Great Britain) in Poor Law Schools, Certified Industrial Schools, or Certified Reformatories. |
| (a.) | they completed their training before 1st January, 1864; or | ||||
| (b.) | are teachers of infants, having—
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88. (Lapsed Article.)
| (a.) | 75 per cent of the expenditure of the college for the year, certified in such manner as the Department may require.page 77 |
| (b.) | 50l. for each male, and 35l. for each female, Queen's scholar (Article 96), in residence for continuous training throughout the year for which it is being paid. |
| (a.) | An instalment of 12l, (males), or 8l. (females) is paid on 1st March, 1st June, and 1st September, in respect of every Queen's scholar (Article 96) in residence for continuous training throughout the year. |
| (b.) | Part of the instalment of the 1st of September may be suspended, if payment of the full amount then due would cause the limit under Article 89 (a) to be exceeded. |
| (c.) | The balance is adjusted as soon as the college accounts for the year have been closed, audited, and approved by the Department. |
Section III.
Admission into Training Colleges.
91. An examination of candidates for admission into training colleges is annually held at each college in summer, commencing at 10 a.m. on the first Tuesday after the second of July (4th July, 1876).
92. The examination extends to the subjects required in the course of a pupil teacher's engagement (Schedule I.).
| (a.) | intend bond fide to adopt and follow the profession of teacher in schools fulfilling the conditions of Article 86 (a) or (b); |
| (b.) | having been pupil-teachers, have successfully completed their engagement; |
| (c.) | not having been pupil-teachers, will be more than 18 years of age on the 1st of January next following the date of the examination. This article will apply to pupil-teachers whose engagement may have been determined under section 5 of the memorandum of agreement (Article 70f), (1) without discredit to themselves, and (2) for reasons approved by the Department. |
94. The successful candidates are arranged in two classes in order of merit.
95. The authorities of each college may propose to the Department for admission any candidate declared to be admissible pursuant to Article 94.
96. Such candidates when admitted are termed Queen's Scholars.
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| (a.) | The medical officer of the college must certify the state of their health to be satisfactory, and that they are free from serious bodily defect, or deformity; and— |
| (b.) | They must sign a declaration signifying their intention conformably to Article 93 (a). |
98. The authorities of each college settle their own terms of admission.
99. Upon proof by the authorities of any college that candidates have not fulfilled the conditions signed by them on admission into the college, the Department will refuse to grant teacher's certificates (Article 53) to such candidates, or to admit them to probation for certificate (Article 51).
Section IV.
Examination of Students in Training Colleges.
100. An examination of the resident students is held in December at the several colleges. This examination will commence in 1876, on Tuesday the 12th of December, at 10 a.m.
101. No student may be presented for examination except such as, at the date of their admission, satisfied Article 93, and have been resident throughout the whole year. No such student may be left out.
102. The students have a different examination according as they are males or females, or are at the end of a first or second year of residence.
103. The first year's syllabus for females includes special subjects for the teachers of infants. Candidates who pass in these subjects, and complete their probation (Article 51) in schools for infants, receive special mention thereof (stamp) on their certificates.
104. Students who pass successfully through two years of training receive special mention thereof (stamp) on their certificates.
105. Students who fall into the fourth division (Article 49) at the end of the first year's residence are required to take up the first year's subjects again at the end of their second year.