June or at the beginning of July for students whose academic year begins on 1st August, and in December for those students whose academic year begins on 1st January.

Those who pass the examination qualify for the Board's Diploma in Domestic Subjects. In cases where students continue for a third year of training, the Diploma is not issued until the completion of the third year.

Head 9.-Students who with the Board's approval take a continuous third year of specialised training in one subject-Advanced Cookery, or Needlework and Elementary Dressmaking, or Science applied to Housecraft-may on the satisfactory completion of their course have their diplomas endorsed in respect of the special subject studied. Students who fail to complete satisfactorily their continuous third year may, nevertheless, be recognised as Teachers of Domestic Subjects in respect of their satisfactory completion of two years' training. In this case they are included in sub-head (a).

TABLE 96. B.

Head 1.-One-year students (Certificated) are students who have been recognised as Certificated Teachers but not trained, and after a period of service take a one-year course of training.

Head 2.-The third-year students shown under this head are students who have completed a continuous third-year course not devoted to degree or post-graduate work, and teachers who have taken a deferred third-year course after a period of teaching in schools.

Head 3.-A deferred third-year course may, with the special approval of the Board, be taken after an interval of teaching in schools by students who have previously completed satisfactorily a two-year course of training in a Training College for Domestic Subjects. These students are examined in the Principles and Practice of Teaching and in the Theory and Practice of the special subject of the course approved for them. Their diplomas are endorsed on the satisfactory completion of their course.

TABLE 98.

Certificate Examination for Teachers in Elementary Schools.

The Certificate Examination for teachers in elementary schools who desired to qualify for recognition as Certificated Teachers without passing through a training college, was held for the last time in November, 1926. Successful candidates were recognised as Certificated Teachers from 1st April, 1927.

The conditions of admission to and the subjects taken at the Certificate Examination are to be found in the syllabus of the Examination published by H.M. Stationery Office.

Other Courses for Teachers.

TABLE 99.

The figures in this table relate only to courses which were organised or recognised by the Board. Short Full-time Courses vary in length; most of them were held in the Summer vacation of 1927 and lasted for a fortnight or three weeks. A small number were held during the week-end at different times of the year. A list of Vacation Courses conducted by the Board of Education, Local Education Authorities, Universities and other Bodies is published annually by the Board in the Spring.

Part-time courses consist of meetings on one or more days a week for a number of weeks; as, for example, a meeting of two hours on Saturday mornings for 10 or 12 weeks.

Teachers Recognised.

TABLES 100 AND 101.

These tables are designed to show the yearly additions to the supply of teachers recognised under the Code in the years 1924–27. The figures relating to Certificated Teachers for the three years 1924-26, published in the corresponding tables in the 1925-26 Statistical Volume, have been revised so as to include only Certificated Teachers recognised for the first time as such, whether permanently, temporarily, or provisionally, during those years. Teachers who, having failed to pass the Final Examination at the end of their training, were recognised first as temporarily Certificated Teachers and who in a later year completed their qualifications for full recognition as Certificated Teachers during the years 1924-27, are shown only in the year in which they were first recognised. Similarly, Certificated Teachers not previously trained, who complete a course of training and become entitled to be regarded as "trained," are not included as such. The date of recognition is that from which the teacher is recognised.

TABLE 100.

This table includes all the teachers recognised in their respective capacities by the Board for the first time under Schedule I of the Code during the calendar years 1924, 1925, 1926 and 1927. The number of Certificated Teachers in 1925 includes 639 who passed the Board's Certificate Examination for Acting Teachers in November 1924, and who were recognised as Certificated Teachers from 1st April, 1925; and the number in 1927 includes 879 who passed the Examination in November, 1926, and who were recognised as Certificated Teachers from 1st April, 1927. No Certificate Examination was held in 1923 or in 1925; the Examination was held for the last time in 1926.

TABLE 101.

This table gives more detailed information of the persons recognised as Certificated Teachers in the same years.

Columns 5-7 include teachers who completed courses of training outside England and Wales.

Columns 11-13 show the teachers who qualified for recognition by passing the Board's Certificate Examination or other examination accepted for the purpose. It includes those who after a period of training failed in their Final Examination but were given temporary recognition for a period of two and a half years in which they would have an opportunity of taking the Examination again. During their temporary recognition they are regarded as nontrained.

In 1925 the number is swollen by the 639 who passed the Board's Certificate Examination for acting teachers at the end of 1924 and were recognised as Certificated Teachers from 1st April, 1925; and in 1927 the number includes 879 who passed the Examination at the end of 1926 and were recognised as Certificated Teachers from 1st April, 1927. There is a further increase of about 500 in the number of trained teachers in 1927 as compared with previous years, which was due to the Board according recognition in that year to all students who completed approved courses satisfactorily. In previous years students who completed courses of training for Secondary Schools were not recognised unless they applied for recognition. They are now recognised without having to make application.

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Education in Wales

Report of the Board of Education under the Welsh Intermediate Education Act, 1889, for the Year 1927

Presented by the President of the Board of Education
to Parliament by Command of His Majesty

WELSH DEPARTMENT

BOARD OF EDUCATION

London:

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