There are some disquieting features in the report of the Board of Education for the year 1918-1919, especially in the chapter dealing with the education and training of teachers.
With regard to the supply of men teachers, it would seem that the Board has decided to accept the inevitable.
"Any attempt to estimate the future of men teachers in element tary schools is a matter of some complexity. Already before the war boy entrants to the profession were falling off to an alarming extent, and it is too early to judge whether the enhanced prospects of teachers, in the shape of. better salaries and pensions, will counter balance the attractions of commerce and industry at a time when pay is high in these occupations.
Those who are best. able to judge are disposed to think that a proportion of posts in the element tary schools, considerably larger than heretofore, will ultimately be filled by women, and that Jocal education authorities will be compelled to employ the men teachers who offer themselves as teachers older children.""
Women a1 Mixen CoLtecrs.
This tendency is being helped vy the fact that some of the mixed colleges which ceased to take men students during the war have not yet reconstituted the men's depart: ment, the Board remarking that it is doubtful how far it would be advisable for them to do so.
The tables giving the numbers persons recognized as intending teachers for the first time in Eng-Jand and Wales show an almost continuous decrease since 1908, the number of boy entrants having dropped in that period in England from 2,433 to 665.
The totals for boys and girls in England and Wales are
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