Work house
Schools.

Evening
Schools.

The per-centage of the average daily attendance of pupils to the average number on the rolls was 66-2.

(c.) WORKHOUSE SCHOOLS.

27. The number of Workhouse Schools in connexion with our Board on 31st December, 1900, was 150.

The total number of pupils on the rolls of these Workhouse Schools on the last day of the year was 4,422, the total average daily attendance of pupils for the year was 3,757, and the average daily attendance of pupils of 3 to 15 years of age was 3,747.

(d.) EVENING SCHOOLS.

28. Evening Schools are, as a rule, held on the same premises and taught by the same teachers as the Day Schools with which they are connected. There were twenty-one in operation during the year ended 31st December, 1900.

The particulars as to the character of the attendance are as follows:

We have had, however, under consideration the question of reorganizing the curriculum and conditions of payment to Evening Schools generally, in connexion with the recommendations of the Commission of Manual and Practical Instruction, and we have been in communication with the Irish Government and the Treasury on the subject. We expect soon to be able to make definite regulations in accordance with arrangements which have been approved by the Treasury.

Teaching
Power.

Teaching Power.

29. The number of Teachers in our service on 31st December, 1900, was as follows:

The Teachers of the 284 Convent and 3 Monastery Schools that are paid by capitation and the Teachers of Workhouse National Schools, are not included in this return.

30. The following Table shows the number of schools taught by masters or mistresses exclusively, and by Staffs consisting of both masters and mistresses; also the number of schools Mixed and attended by boys only, and by girls and infants only, and the mixed number having a mixed attendance of boys and girls :

Schools.

New

31. During the year ended 31st December, 1900, there were 547 persons appointed for the first time as Principal or Assistant Teachers. Of these 305 had been trained and 242 were Teachers untrained.

The

Teaching
Body.

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.

32. NUMBER of TEACHERS who left the Service during the Year ended 31st December, 1900, or who were unemployed on that date.

N.B.-The term "Teachers" includes Principals and Assistants; it excludes
Workmistresses and Temporary Teachers.

33. The number of paid Monitors on the 31st December, 1900, was 1,130 Boys and 3,010 Girls. Total, 4,140.

The following table gives the number of Monitors classified according to their year of service:

34. The Annual General Examinations of 1900 were held Annual partly in April (Easter) and partly in July.

The Pupil Teachers in their first year of service, Monitors of third year, 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 classed Teachers seeking Third Class certificates, were examined at Easter.

Certificated Teachers who were candidates for promotion, persons seeking Teaching Certificates for Extra Branches, and King's Scholars in training were examined, as heretofore, in the 'month of July.

The Examinations at Easter were held under the provisions of the Revised Programme exclusively, while, at the July Examinations, candidates were examined under the Revised Programme, and also in certain cases under the Programme hitherto in force.

There were in all 5,119 persons examined in the various courses, viz. :—3,893 at Easter, and 1,226 in July (139 being under the Old Programme (for First Division of First Class), and 1,087 under the Revised Programme).

In addition to these there were 901 candidates for certificates of competency in one or more Extra Branches at the July Examinations.

Examinations.

The following is a summary of the persons examined under the two Programmes :—

The Questions set at the 1900 Examinations, and an analysis of the answering, will be found in the Appendix to this Report,

Section III.

Pensions, &c., to Teachers.

Teachers' Pensions and Gratuities,

35. 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.