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On Technical Education. 
[April, 
VI. ON TECHNICAL EDUCATION. 
By Robert Galloway, M.R.I.A. 
(Continued from page 159.) 
S HE system of Technical Instruction carried out by the 
City and Guilds of London Institute will now be re- 
viewed : the system is a copy of the Department’s one 
in its general principles ; all the errors and defects of the one 
system exist consequently in the other. The teacher is paid 
wholly on result system ; the Examinations are merely 
written ones. The same set of Examiners appear always 
to be employed, as is the case under the Department ; there- 
fore what has been stated in former articles in condemnation 
of this mode of paying teachers, and testing the quality of 
the instruction given as adopted by the Department, applies 
in an equal degree to the Guilds’ plan. 
In the Guilds’ Programme it is stated that the “ Payments 
to teachers of Technological subjects, on the results of in- 
struction in Technology, will be made generally in accordance 
with the same rules as those which regulate the payments 
madeby the Science and Art Department to Science teachers,” 
— that is to say, the teacher will not receive payment on 
results for every class of students, but only for those who 
are in receipt of weekly wages, and of their children, or 
persons in the receipt of not more than £200 a year, also 
their children, and teachers and pupil-teachers of some ele- 
mentary schools. We draw attention to this limitation in 
the payments, because we shall bring under the notice of 
our readers presently the opinions of men eminently qualified 
from their occupations to form intelligent and correct views 
on the question, and it will be shown that their opinions do 
not accord with those who were the originators of this 
system. 
Local Committees along with the Local Secretaries super- 
intend the pupils, as under the Department’s plan, during 
the time they are engaged in answering the questions set in 
the Examination papers. The Guilds do not, however, 
appear to have any inspection of their classes to see how 
the courses of instruction are given by the teachers, and 
yet, as was shown in the May article (vol. v.), this duty is a 
most important one, for good inspection will reveal more as 
