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SCIENTIFIC SURVEY OF YORK AND DISTRICT 



by the training and academic qualifications of the present members of 

 school staffs, and the reduction that has taken place in size of class. The 

 following are the numbers of teachers engaged in elementary education 

 in York, then and now. The reduction m number of scholars in elemen- 

 tary schools is partly accounted for by the transfer of large numbers of 

 children to the secondary schools : — 



The following graph illustrates the comparison 



1903 



1903 



Certificated 

 (167) 



Uncertificated 

 (76) 



Supple- 

 mentary 

 (37) 



Total 

 (280) 



1932 



/ 



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D 



Graduates 

 (23) 



Certificated 

 (307) 



Total 

 (359) 



To help towards ensuring an adequate flow of recruits to the teaching 

 profession the Education Committee encourage young people who wish 

 to become trained teachers by pre-training facilities of secondary and 

 higher education, and by the grant of financial assistance in the two 

 years before the age of entry to college or university. Under the 

 scheme of pupil-teacher probationers now in operation, fifteen girls and 

 boys who have satisfactorily completed their secondary school course 

 at 16 years of age are selected for appointment as probationers for the 

 two years before their entry to a training college or university at the age 



