Expendi- table. This would give an average of £2 58. 6d. for each child schools. in average daily attendance during the year: ture on to Teach 19,423 3 6 &c.), 34,295 10 7 Rates from Contributory Unions (net) Rate per Pupil from (a), Rate per Pupil from (b), Rate per Pupil from all sources, Payments 40. The Amounts paid by the State in the Financial Year 1896-7 to the Teaching Staffs of the principal classes of National Schools were as follows: ing Staffs of (This does not include Rates, School Pence, and other Local Contributions.) A special grant was made in 1896-7 to Convent and Monastery Schools, paid by capitation allowance, amounting to £12,600, which, as it relates to preceding years from 1892-3 to 1895-6, is not included in the above total. The total amount of the contributions from the Rates was £25,614 17s. 7d., but the sum of £16,356 19s. 11d. was refunded to the Guardians out of the Customs and Excise Gran!. The payments to Evening Schools, excluded from this table, amounted to £653 17. Total, £1,137,754 10s. 8d. 41. The total income of the Teaching Staff of all Schools, from Total the various sources, for the year ended 31st March, 1897, was as Teaching follows: 1 Income of Staff. Salaries. 42. The (fixed) salaries of the National Teachers, as augmented Scale of under the Act of 1892, are as follows: ASSISTANT TEACHERS OF FIVE YEARS' STANDING AND OVER WHO 43. The payments to the teachers out of the Funds placed at various our disposal by Parliament are made under the following general kinds of heads: (a) Salaries; (b) Results Fees; (c) Parliamentary School Payments. Grant; (d) Customs and Excise Grant; (e) Gratuities. (a) 44. (a.) The total amount paiú in 1896-7 in salaries to Principal Salaries. and Assistant Teachers and Workmistresses (including Capitation salaries to conductors of Convent Schools and to Teachers of small Modified Grant Schools) was £498,149 118. 7d. This sum does not include £12,600 Special Grant to Convent and Monastery Capitation Schools-see note on preceding page. † (After refund to Guardians out of Customa and Excise Grant.) Unions, whi Castoms and Excise) Malit over to us. 7th Contributory payment of partial or LF Teachers, the amount Lathes I t Schoos situmed in Nontu aistributed at the rate contributory Unions was £12 The total amount paid of S. per pupil in trenge attenance 45. Er the Education Act of 1882 fees were abolished from the 1st October, 1892, in Schools where the average rate of fees received during the year 15. had not exceed six shillings a year for each child of the number of cire in average daily attendance. In Schools where the average rate had exceeded that sum the fees to be charged were not to be such as to make the average rate higher for any year than the amount of the said excess." See Table D., page 47. Training Colleges. 46. There are five Training Colleges receiving Grants, viz. :— Training (1.) "Marlborough-street" (Dublin), for men and women, under Colleges. our own Management; (2.) "St. Patrick's" (Drumcondra, Dublin), for men; (3.) "Our Lady of Mercy" (Baggot-street, Dublin), for women. Both of these Colleges are under the management of His Grace the Most Rev. Dr. Walsh, Archbishop of Dublin; (4) Church of Ireland" (Kildare-place, Dublin), for men and women, under the management of His Grace the Most Rev. and Right Hon. Lord Plunket, Archbishop of Dublin (now deceased); (5.) "De la Salle " (Waterford), for men, under the management of the Most Rev. Dr. Sheehan, Bishop of Waterford and Lismore. Under the provisions of the scheme for the re-organization of Fixed the Training Colleges, promulgated in the letter of November, 1890, from the Right Hon. A. J. Balfour, then Chief Secretary for Ireland, the fixed grant payable for each Queen's Scholar in the Training Colleges is £50 for a male and £35 for a female Queen's Scholar, per annum. Grants. In addition to these fixed grants, a bonus of £10 for each year Bonuses. of residence for every male Queen's Scholar, and £7 for each year of residence for every female Queen's Schclar, is granted on the award of the Training Diploma after a probationary service of two years in the actual work of teaching. 47. During the past College year, commencing in September, Queen's 1895, 765 Queen's Scholars, of whom 422 were men and 343 Scholars, women, were under instruction in these Colleges. 462 Queen's Scholars completed their course of training. Of these, 160 who had been previously employed as Teachers of National Schools, completed their course of one year's training, and 302 completed their two years' course of training. QUEEN'S SCHOLARS in Training-Session, 1895-6. 1895-6. Numbers trained. 48. Number of QUEEN'S SCHOLARS TRAINED at each of the COLLEGES during certain periods. $11,320 Teachers underwent courses of training in the Marlborough-street College from the commencement of the College in 1833 up to 31st August, 1885, when the College was brought under the same general academic regulations as the Denominational Colleges Religious tions of 49. RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS of the QUEEN'S SCHOLARS in MARLBOROUGH STREET TRAINING COLLEGE who completed their Training Course in 1896. Reports. Total 50. The Head Inspectors in charge of the Training Colleges report in favourable terms as to the maintenance of the premises, and as to the efficiency of the system of instruction. The general Reports on the Colleges for the year ended 31st August, 1896, will be found in the Appendix, Section I. 51. THE TOTAL NUMBER of TRAINED TEACHERS in the SERVICE on 31st December, 1896, was 5,381, or 44.8 per cent. of the total number of Principal and Assistant Teachers in the service, made up as follows: |