Grouped Well appointed Evening schools and classes may submit schemes and time-tables for grouping together cognate Science Subjects. and Art subjects. This grouping will only be permitted where the students are actually in training for a trade or craft under some recognised educational authority, and the subjects selected for grouping together are those necessary for the instruction in the principles underlying such trade or craft. The time to be given to instruction in each subject of the proposed group must be clearly indicated in the scheme submitted for approval. Where an Advanced Course is proposed, the instruction in it must, as a rule, be confined to a smaller number of subjects than that which is suitable for the Elementary Course Qualification of Teachers. TEACHING STAFF AND MEETINGS OF CLASS FOR INSTRUCTION. XIII. The Teacher of a School or Class must be recognized as such by the Board. SCIENCE. a. Teachers in schools managed by an organization recognised under Clause VII. or by a Local Authority acting under the Technical Instruction Acts and Teachers on the Staff of Training Colleges who are regularly employed in them, whilst so employed will be held as qualified in the subjects which they teach in such School or Training College. In other schools the Managers must satisfy the Board that the teaching staff is competent to give the approved instruction. As a rule a teacher will be required to have obtained in the subject which he is to teach (1.) A degree of any University of the United Kingdom which covers the subject. (2.) A First Class in the Advanced Stage, or a success in Honours at the Board's examinations; or to have passed some examination which the Board consider equivalent thereto; or (3.) A certificate of the Royal College of Science, London, or of the Royal College of Science, Dublin. The examination for qualification. to teach will be dispensed with in the case of Associates of the Royal College of Science, London, or of the Royal College of Science, Dublin. For further particulars as to special qualifications to teach certain subjects, see Appendix, pp. 73 and 74. Specially qualified recognised. ART. a. The Principal Teacher of a School of Art must hold an Art Master's Certificate, Group I. (see Appendix, p. 76.) (1.) In cases of the Principal Tea- b. The Principal Teacher of an Art Class must hold the Art Class Teacher's Certificate or an Art Master's Certificate (see p. 75). c. A class for Attendance Grants in respect of Group I. only may be under the instruc tion of : For details of teachers' certificates see pp. 74 to 77 of the Appendix. Applications for Art Class Teachers' Certificates and for Elementary Drawing Certificates must be made on form 592 and not by letter. persons may be exceptionally MEETINGS OF CLASS. number of XIV. The session of a school or class commences Duration of on 1st August and terminates on the following Session and 31st July. The class in each stage of a subject of class meetScience or group of subjects of Art must meet under ings. the instruction of a qualified teacher and be registered on at least 28 days or in case of a recognised group of subjects of Science on 50 days during the session, each meeting, except as provided in the following sections a and b, being of at least one hour's duration on a separate day, and in accordance with the time table submitted to the Board. Should less than 28 lessons, or 50 lessons, as the case may be, have been registered during the session, the claim for payments will only be considered under very exceptional circumstances, and payment, if made at all, will be reduced. A day class meeting is one which commences before Day and evening 6 p.m., and an evening class meeting is one which com meetings, mences after that hour; except on Saturdays, when a class meeting after 1 p.m. is regarded as an evening meeting. a. In Schools of Art both Day a. Each lesson in practical and Night Classes must be instruction must be of at least one hour and a half's duration. b. On special application to the Board, made each session, lessons of not less than 40 minutes may be sanctioned in day schools, except as provided in (a) above. Where such sanction is accorded, all the lessons in the school (except in practical subjects) will be considered to be in lessons of the sanctioned length c. The concurrent instruction of Classes in different subjects not included in a recognized group, or in the Elementary held, and there must be a Night b. A branch Class of a School Special Class Record of Students and attendance registers. For Grouped Latest dates of joining class. Marking attendance registers. XIV.-(cont.) SCIENCE. and Advanced Stages of the ART. c. In Art Classes, evening meetings should, as a rule, be provided for, in addition to any day meetings which may be held. d. Meetings of less than an hour's duration are not recognised in Schools of Art or in Art Classes. Visits of Science and Art students to Galleries, Museums, or other similar institutions; or their attendance for field work, may be recorded in the attendance register and counted as attendances for grants, if the students are accompanied by the recognized Teacher of the Class, and all the arrangements are previously submitted to and approved by the Inspector. REGISTRATION OF STUDENTS. XV. Managers must preserve a record of the students who join the school. A record of a student's attendance at instruction must be kept in the special registers provided (see p. 78). Where a group under the provisions stated on p. 7, has been recognised, a special group register must be kept for it. Students registered in the group register cannot at the same time be registered for instruction in the separate subjects of Science or Art which are approved for inclusion in the group. Students must be registered for either the Elementary or Advanced instruction in the group. The Managers are held responsible for the accuracy of the registration, and no grants will be made or prizes awarded unless the attendance registers are returned to the Board properly filled in and certified. XVI. The attendance of those Science students only who are registered as joining on or before December 1st, and of those Art students who join on or before February 1st, may be registered for payments in respect of the grant for the current session. The attendances of a student who joins a class after these dates must not be included in the claim for the current session. They may, however, be carried forward (up to half the maxima stated in § XLII.a) to augment the claim for the next session, provided that the same student makes in that session in the same subject or group of subjects at least the minimum number of attendances qualifying for a grant. XVII. In order to record the presence of students at a lesson, the register may be marked by calling over the XVII.-(cont.) names, or it may be made up from tallies, or sheets circulated for signature, or by any other process which the Managers may consider most convenient, and sufficient to enable them to certify the attendances, provided that the process does not lend itself to abuse and is approved by the Inspector. XVIII. The following restrictions must be observed in respect of registration No student under 12 years of age may be registered except with the special sanction of the Inspector. Otherwise the attendances of a student who reaches the age of 12 after 1st December in the case of Science, or 1st February in the case of Art Subjects, are subject to the restrictions and conditions in § XVI. No student may be registered whose name is on the register for Day Attendance at a Public Elementary School under the Board of Education. SCIENCE. a. No student may, in the same session, be registered in both the Elementary and Advanced stage of the same subject b. No student may be registered in a subject of Science in which he is also receiving instruction in an Evening Continuation School. No Student registered in a School of Science ($$ LV. LXXII.), or in a Higher Elementary School, or in a Day School under LXXIII. may be also regis tered for Attendance Grants in a Science Class. c. No student may be registered for more than two years for attendance in either the Elementary or Advanced stage of any one subject, or for more than four years in a recognised group of subjects, or for more than one year in Section 1 of the Elementary Stage of Subject! XV. or XXIII. or XXV.: thus, after one year in Section 1 a student may be registered for be registered for two years in the Elementary Stage and for two years in the Advanced Stage of these subjects. Where a Pupil Teacher ART. a. No student may be registered both for a grant for Drawing in an Evening Continuation School and for a grant in a School of Art or Art Class. b. No Student in a School of Science ($$ LV. LXXII.) or in a Higher Elementary School, may be registered for an Attendance Grant in Group I. But Advanced Course Students of a School of Science who are not receiving instruction beyond Group I., may be registered in the evening for an Attendance Grant for such further instruction. c. No student may be registered for the Attendance Grant for more than four years in Group I. and for more than eight years altogether in the other three Groups. (See p. 78.) d. Registration of a student's attendances for instruction in Groups II., III., and IV., will be accepted provided he is qualified, or becomes qualified during the current session, by success at the examinations, or is recommended by the Inspector. Persons registration. excluded from |
