INSPECTORSHIPS :-

Appointment of additional Inspector of Schools in Scotland, and
Assistant Inspector of Schools in England

COMMITTEE of counCIL ON EDUCATION:-

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112

Appointment of new Committee

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CORRESPONDENCE, &c.

On Questions of GENERAL ADMINISTRATION, and on BUILDING

GRANTS and ANNUAL GRANTS.

GENERAL ADMINISTRATION:-

1. Notice as to distribution of future volumes of "Minutes"

2. Letter to Her Majesty's Inspector of Training Schools, Rev. H.

Moseley, suggesting that attention of Principals should be directed

to study of Decimal System for Coinage and for Weights and

Measures

BUILDING GRANTS:-

1. Letter as to erection and maintenance of a School at an Incumbent's

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115

1. Circular Letter to Her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools, as to exer-

cises in Elementary Drawing

2. Reply to an inquiry as to examination in Latin

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119

3. Circular Letter to Her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools, as to Grants

to Industrial Schools

4. Letter inquiring as to assistance to be expected towards establishing

Industrial School; with reply thereto

121

5. Circular Letter to Her Majesty's Inspector of Schools, as to their

reports on applications for Retiring Pensions

6. Extract from Instructions to Her Majesty's Inspector of Schools,

with a view to detect and prevent instances of collusion between

candidates undergoing examinations for Certificates of Merit and

Queen's Scholarships

7. Replies (3) to inquiries as to employment of Pupil-teachers on Sundays

8. Inquiry as to rule for calculating Average Attendance; with reply

thereto

9. Letter as to selection of Training School by Pupil-teacher, being a

candidate for Queen's Scholarship; with reply thereto

126

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, &c.

1. Tables showing Expenditure, classified (a) according to object of

Grant, and (b) according to denomination of recipients, for year

ended 31 December 1854, and from 1839 to 1854; and Balance

Sheet of all Disbursements actually paid between 1 January and

31 December 1854, and also between 1839 and 1854

2. Summary of Grants awarded in aid of Erection, Enlargement, or Im-

provements of School Buildings (Elementary and Normal Schools),

in year ended 31 December 1854; (with explanatory tables)

3. Summary of Grants awarded in aid of Purchase of Books and Maps

in year ended 31 December 1854

4. Table showing number of Male and Female Certificated Teachers

actually employed in teaching; number of Assistant Teachers ap-

pointed under Minute of 23 July 1852; and total number of Pupil-

teachers under apprenticeship, with number in each year of ap-

prenticeship; corrected to 31 December 1854

5. General Summary of Results of Inspection for year ended 31

August 1854

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134

6. General Summary of Aggregate Annual Income and Expenditure (as
returned by Managers) of an ascertained number of Schools enu-
merated in foregoing Table No. 5, exclusive of grants from Com-
mittee of Council on Education

7. Summary of a Return for England and Wales, showing Population
between ages of 5 and 15; number of Schools of each Denomination
under Inspection, up to 31 December 1853; number of Scholars
whom such Schools are capable of accommodating; number of
Scholars in Average Attendance; and Comparison of number of
Schools and Scholars, under Inspection, with number returned in
Census of 1851

8. Statement of Annual Grants awarded to Training Schools, from

1847 to 1854 inclusive, on account of Certificated Students and

Queen's Scholars

9. Statement of Grants of Retiring Pensions paid to Teachers of Schools

under Inspection,-up to 31 December 1854

10. Statement of Grants to Schools of Industry, for Industrial Purposes,

-up to 31 December 1854

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139

11. Detailed Statement (under Counties) of sums expended from Par-

liamentary Grants for Education in Great Britain; in Building,

Enlargement, Improvements, or Fixtures of Schools; in Books and

Maps; in augmenting Salaries of Certificated Teachers; in Stipends

of Assistant Teachers; in Stipends of Pupil-teachers and Gratuities

for their special instruction; and in Cupitation Grants;-between

years 1833 and 1854

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143

For Detailed Statement of Annual Grants to Elementary Schools, vide APPENDIX.

1

Reports, by-

INSPECTORS' REPORTS FOR 1854.

NORMAL SCHOOLS :-

(1) Rev. H. Moseley, on National Society's, Diocesan, and other Train-

ing Schools for Schoolmasters

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275

(2) Rev. F. C. Cook, on National Society's, Diocesan, and other Train-

ing Schools for Schoolmistresses

319

(3) J. Bowstead, Esq., on British and Foreign School Society's Training

School in Borough Road, London

(4) J. D. Morell, Esq., on Wesleyan Training School in Horseferry

Road, Westminster

(1) Rev. F. C. Cook, on Schools in Counties of Middlesex, Hertford,

Bedford, and Buckingham

387

(2) Rev. H. W. Bellairs, on Schools in Counties of Gloucester, Oxford,

Warwick, Worcester, Hereford, and Monmouth

398

(3) Rev. F. Watkins, on Schools in County of York

(4) Rev. E. Douglas Tinling, on Schools in Counties of Dorset,

Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall

(5) Rev. M. Mitchell, on Schools in Counties of Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk,

Cambridge, and Huntingdon

466

(6) Rev. J.J. Blandford, on Schools in Counties of Lincoln, Nottingham,

Derby, Leicester, Rutland, and Northampton

489

(7) Rev. W. H. Brookfield, on Schools in Counties of Kent, Surrey,

and Susser, and in Channel Islands

498

(8) Rev. W. J. Kennedy, on Schools in County of Lancaster, and in

Isle of Man

516

(10) Rev. D. J. Stewart, on Schools in Counties of Northumberland,

Durham, Cumberland, and Westmoreland

(9) Rev. J. P. Norris, on Schools in Counties of Chester, Salop, and

Stafford

532

552

(11) Rev. W. Warburton, [no General Report] on Schools in Counties

of Berks, Hants, and Wilts

585

(12) Rev. H. Longueville Jones, on Schools in Wales

588

BRITISH AND OTHER PROTESTANT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS not CONNECTED
WITH CHURCH OF ENGLAND:~

General Reports, by-

(13) J. D. Morell, Esq. (in Northern and Eastern Counties)

(14) M. Arnold, Esq. (in Midland Counties)

609

620

(15) J. Bowstead, Esq. (in Southern and Western Counties)

627

ROMAN CATHOLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS (IN GREAT BRITAIN) :-

General Reports, by-

(16) T. W. M. Marshall, Esq. (Southern District)

(17) S. N. Stokes, Esq. (Northern District)

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665

SCOTLAND.

ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS CONNECTED WITH ESTABLISHED CHURCH:-

General Report, by-

(18) E. Woodford, Esq., LL.D.

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ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS not CONNECTED WITH ESTABLISHED CHURCH:-*

683

General Report, by-

Special Report, by-

PRIZE-SCHEMES :----

Rev. J. P. Norris, on Prize-Schemes of Mining and Manufacturing

Districts of Cheshire, Shropshire, and Staffordshire

738

ANNUAL GRANTS :-

APPENDIX.

Detailed Statement of Annual Grants, conditionally payable in

year ending 31 October 1855, on account of Pupil-teachers (with

names of Apprentices, and month in current year in which

Annual Examination is to be held); also for Augmentation of

Salaries of Certificated Teachers; for stipends of Assistant

Teachers; and for Retiring Pensions

CALENDAR OF CERTIFICATED TEACHERS:-

Annual Calendar (completed to 1 January 1855) of Schoolmasters and

Schoolmistresses who have obtained Certificates of Merit; with

Appendix showing results of Examinations at Christmas 1854

CALENDAR OF REGISTERED TEACHERS:-

Annual Calendar (completed to 1 January 1855) of Schoolmasters and

Schoolmistresses who have passed examinations for Registration

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