49. Number of QUEEN'S SCHOLARS TRAINED at each of the COLLEGES Numbers 11,320 Teachers underwent courses of training in the Marlborough-street College from the commencement of the College in 1833 up to 31st August, 185, when the College was brought under the same general academic regulations as the Denominational Colleges. Total Trained Teachers, 1897. 50. THE TOTAL NUMBER of TRAINED TEACHERS in the SERVICE on 31st December, 1897, was 5,546, or 46.2 per cent. of the total number of Principal and Assistant Teachers in the service, made up as follows: 51. RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS of the QUEEN'S SCHOLARS admitted to MARLBOROUGH-STREET TRAINING COLLEGE for the Session, 1896-7. Condition of the See Table E, page 50. 52. The Training Colleges are, without exception, working Colleges. efficiently, and the reports on them indicate very marked progress, especially in regard to Practice of Teaching. 53. During the year applications were received by us for sanction of the establishment of two additional Training Colleges for Females-one in Limerick for 75 Queen's Scholars and the other in Belfast for 80. On our recommendation Your Excellency and the Lords of Her Majesty's Treasury were pleased to authorize the establishment of these Colleges. The existing Colleges do not supply sufficient teachers to fill the annual vacancies, but as soon as the two additional Colleges are in operation, this deficiency in the number of trained teachers will, it is hoped, be to a considerable extent supplied. The proportion of candidates selected to fill the vacancies in the Colleges from those who had previously served as monitors is increasing satisfactorily. The lengthened course of instruction as monitors in selected schools, perfected by a two-year course of training in a well-worked College, should produce an able staff of teachers. 54. The general Reports on the Colleges for the year ended 31st August, 1897, will be found in the Appendix, Section I. SOURCES FROM WHICH THE DEFICIENCY IS MET. 55. TABLE showing for a series of years the demand for New Teachers and the supply of Trained Teachers; and the means of supplying the deficiency. Number of Fifth Year TRAINING COLLEGES. Monitors Training Training ships. Untrained Trained and 56. Numbers of Trained and Untrained Teachers, and percentage of the number trained to the total number, for each of the last ten years: Results Examinations. 57. In order to qualify for presentation at the Results Examination each pupil is required to make 100 attendances in day schools, which must be open for at least four hours a day for secular instruction, and 50 attendances in evening schools, which must be open for two hours each evening during at least six continuous months. The total number of Schools examined for Results within the twelve months ended 31st December, 1897, by the Inspectors and for which we have been able to tabulate the particulars, was 8,570, viz. : 58. The following table shows the number of pupils of National Percentage Schools who passed in all the three subjects--Reading, Writing, of passes, and Arithmetic-at the annual examinations by the Inspectors: 59. The per-centages of passes gained in Reading, Writing, ComArithmetic, &c., in each of the last four years, are set forth in the Parative following table: view of proficiency in ordinary subjects. |