Teaching Power. 31. The number of teachers in our service on 31st December, Teaching 1903, was as follows:: Power. The teachers of the 294 convent and 3 monastery Schools that are paid solely by capitation, and the teachers of workhouse national schools, are not included in this return. New Teachers, Teachers 32. During the year ended 31st December, 1903, there were New 522 persons appointed for the first time as principal or assistant teachers. Of these 361 had been trained and 161 were The Teaching The candidates for the position of teacher are in general well prepared; and selections are, as a rule, made by managers with care and judgment. The recently appointed untrained teachers had received, with very few exceptions, a preliminary training as monitors or pupil teachers. Special facilities are now afforded to university graduates to enter our service as teachers. Monitors 33. NUMBER of TEACHERS who left the service during the year ended 31st December, 1903. N.B.-The term "Teachers" includes Principals and permanent Assistants only. 34. The number of paid monitors on the 31st December, 1903, was 847 boys and 2,554 girls. Total, 3,401. The following table gives the number of monitors classified according to their year of service: Examina 35. The annual general examinations of teachers and Annual monitors were held partly in April (Easter) and partly in tions. July, 1903. Pupil teachers in their first year of service, monitors of fifth year, candidates for admission to the Training Colleges, candidates for appointment as Pupil Teachers in the Model Schools, and some few provisionally recognised Teachers seeking Third Grade certificates, were examined at Easter. King's Scholars in training, and 55 other Teachers seeking Certificates of competency to teach Irish, were examined in the month of July. There were in all 2,868 persons examined in the various courses, viz. :—1,733 at Easter, and 1,135 in July. The following is a summary of the persons examined : : Fifth-year Monitors, first-year Pupil Teachers, Provisionally recognised Teachers, and Candidates for Training, 1,506 Two-year King's Scholars at the end of their first year of Training,, 524 One-year and two-year King's Scholars at the end of their course of Training, 556 Other Teachers examined for Certificates of competency to teach Total, The Questions set at the 1903 Examinations, and a summary of the answering, will be found in the Appendix to this Report, Section III. Pensions, &c., to Teachers. Teachers' Pensions and Gratuities. 36. The following Table shows the Number of National Teachers who in each year since the commencement of the Pensions Act (1st January, 1880) were in receipt of Pensions from the Fund; also the number of those to whom, on Retirement, Gratuities under the Act were awarded, with the Total Amounts each year. The figures set forth in the Table have been furnished by the Teachers' Pension Office. 37. The number of Teachers paying premiums in the various Balance classes on 31st December, 1903, was :— Sheet of 38. The following statement relative to the Pension Fund has been furnished to us by the Teachers' Pension Office :The Income and Expenditure of the Pension Fund during the year 1903 were as follows: On 1st January, 1903, debt of the Irish Land Commission, 1,300,000 0 0 *NOTE.--The sum of £18,000 in aid of the Teachers' Pension Fund was paid over by us within the year to the Fund. |