PUBLIC EDUCATION: ENGLAND AND WALES.

(For fuller explanation of the Statistics reference should be made to the No. 135. PUBLIC ELEMEN

(a) Prior to 1919-20 the Statistical Year ended on 31st July. In 1919-20, and subsequent years, it ended on 31st March.

PUBLIC EDUCATION: ENGLAND AND WALES.

Volumes of "Statistics of Public Education in England and Wales.")

(a) The statistics relate to the last day of the school year. In 1915 a uniform school year ending 31st March was adopted for all Special Schools.

YEARS

No. 137.-TRAINING OF TEACHERS FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. (a)

Number of recog
nised Students

admitted to

Training
Colleges.

(a) The figures relating to the Training Colleges for the Blind and for Teachers of the Deaf, respectively, and to the Certified Training Colleges for Private Students only, are not included.

(b) Part-time Teachers are counted once for each Training College in which they served. The figures do not include University Professors and Lecturers whose courses in academic subjects were attended by Training College Students. (c) Information not available.

(b) Prior to the year 1923 Part-time Teachers are counted once for each School in which they

(a) The figures given in these columns include certain men and women who at some time before entry to the Training College, had been already recognised as Certificated Teachers (not "trained").

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(a) For the years 1910-1914 the figures relate to 31st January of the year: for 1920 they relate to 31st March.
(b) Prior to 1923 Part-time Teachers were counted once for each school in which they served.
(c) Information not available.

Compilation of these Statistics suspended
during the War.

721

183,183 264,895 103,888 243,853

674 204,063

267,116 120,291 274,423

763 155,005 232,299 130,783 249,535 453,438 314,947 768,385
822
159,053 228,711 128,849 247,927 453,132 312,230 765,362
1,024 163,247 232,005 126,210 262,509 462,891 322,104 784,995
1,065 165,143 236,226 122,965 273,482 467,240 331,641 798,881
793,194
381,837 380,874 702,711
286,140 307,069 593,209
263,051 293,777 556,828
277,581 317,180 594,761
331,417 619,741
796,540
866,567

Information

not available.

255,025 583,276

Information not

288,324

available.

418,877

377,663

447,209

419,358

(a) The statistics relate to Evening Schools as defined in the Board of Education's "Regulations for Technical Schools, etc." (Ch. 2).

(b) Students who attended more than one School are counted separately in respect of each School which they attended; the number of individual Students was therefore less than the number given in the table.

(c) For the year ended 31st July, 1910, the ages relate to 31st July, 1909.

(d) Students who attended more than one Course are counted separately in respect of each Course which they attended; the number of individual Students was, therefore, considerably less than the number given in the table.