Number of 47. THE TOTAL NUMBER of TRAINED TEACHERS in the SERVICE on fotai 31st December, 1903, was 6,890, or 57.2 per cent. of the total Trained number of Principal and Assistant Teachers in the service, made up Teachers, as follows: 1903. 48. RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS of the KING'S SCHOLARS admitted to Religious MARLBOROUGH-STREET TRAINING COLLEGE for the Session, 1902-1903. Denominations of King's Scholars, Marlborough street. of Supply. and sources Teachers for New Demand 49. 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. Trained and 50. Numbers of Trained and Untrained Teachers, and percentage of the number trained to the total number, for each of Teachers. the last thirteen years: 51. The following Table shows the number of One-year and Two-year Students in Training each year for the last thirteen years in the several Training Colleges, Men and Women being given separately: The General Reports on the Colleges for the session 1902 1903 will be found in the Appendix, Section I. Irish Compulsory Attendance Provisions of the Irish Education Act, 1892. 52. At the end of the year 1903, 88 School Attendance CommitAct, 1892. tees existed in Urban Districts and 75 in Rural Districts, and the provisions of the Act were enforced by 152 of these Committees. Under the provisions of the Act children over 6 and under 14, with certain exceptions, are required to attend school, and to make 75 complete attendances in each half-year ending respectively the 30th June and the 31st December. We give here two tables-the first, taken from the last Census Report, showing the proportion per cent. of the population between 6 and 14 years of age attending school and not attending school during the week ended 11th May, 1901, in each County and Province in Ireland, the second showing the proportion per cent. of the children over 6 and under 14 on the Rolls of National Schools who marie the prescribed number of attendances in each half-year of 1903. From the first table it will be seen that 29-2 per cent. or approximately 3 in 10 of children over 6 and under 14 were not in attendance at any school during the week specified, and, from the second table, that of such children on the Rolls of National Schools only 56 per cent. made the required number of attendances in the first half of the year, and only 45 per cent. made the required number of attendances in the second half of the year. TABLE showing the PROPORTION PER CENT. of the POPULATION between 6 and 14 years of Age Attending School and Not Attending School during the week ending 11th May, 1901, in each County and Province in Ireland TABLE showing for each COUNTY and PROVINCE in IRELAND, the PROPORTION PER CENT. of the Pupils of National Schools over 6 and under 14 Years of Age, who made 75 Attendances in the Half Years ended, respectively, 30th June, 1903, and 31st December, 1903, to the number of such Pupils on the Rolls on 31st December, 1903. Further information in regard to the operation of the provisions of the Irish Education Act, 1892, is given in Section II. of the Appendix to this Report, Revised Programme. 53. RETURN showing for each year from 1899 to 1903, inclusive, the Number of Schools in which certain Subjects were Taught. In 1900 separate Returns were not made for Cookery and for Laundry Work. † In 1900 separate Returns were not made for Object Lessons and for Elementary Scienc3 |