Academic reform and university representation

General Books publication date: 2009
Original publication date: 1860
Original Publisher: E. T. Whitfield Subjects: Examinations Great Britain

Suffrage Great Britain

Universities and colleges Great Britain

Universities and colleges

Examinations

Suffrage

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Political Science / Political Process / Elections

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Excerpt: Number of Candidates for Matriculation and Degrees in Arts in the University of London. COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL EXAMINATIONS FOR TEACHERSHIPS. Considerable attention has been given by successive Committees of Council on Education to the training and examination of Teachers for Elementary Schools. The gradual elevation of youthful Monitors in Schools to the important and salaried position of Pupil-Teachers was accomplished, and arrangements were entered into withmost of the larger ecclesiastical bodies of the United Kingdom, for the inspection, improvement, and increase of their schools, when Sir James Kay Shuttleworth, Bart., occupied the office of Secretary to the Committee of Council. His successor, Mr. Lingen, carries on the work of endeavouring to improve the mass of the people by local improvements in parochial and other schools, inspection of all departments of public instruction under the Committee of Privy Council, and a constant system of liberally assisting local exertions for education within the limits assigned to that Committee's supervision. Candidates for apprenticeship as Pupil-Teachers, under the Committee of Council on Education, are required to be at least thirteen years of age, and must not be subject to an...