E.-lA

1896. NEW ZEALAND.

EDUCATION: TEACHERS' AND CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATIONS. [In continuation of E.-1a, 1895.]

Presented to both Houses of the General Assembly by Command of His Excellency.

The Inspectoe-Geneeal of Schools to the Hon. the Ministee of Education. SlE '~ T , ~ '. ' Education Department, Wellington, 26th March, 1896 ffi t %, a™°™ ? rep ° rt UpOn the annual examinations of candidates for teacherscertificates, and for admission to or promotion in the Civil Service. The examinations were held in January between the 6th and the 15th days of the month, at the thirteen towns which are the seats of Education Boards, and also at Thames, Tauranga, Whakatane, Gisborne Westport Kumara, Oamaru, and Palmerston South. ' vvt!!sU l Joni > The number of candidates was 1,297, made up as -follows : For the Junior Civil Service s^ssgsfe^r Service examination ' io2; for certificate —on? 685 c : to £ITOSl T 052 6 ll en 6d eS ° f the examinations amounted to £794 12s. 6d., and the fees paid by candidates The results of (she Senior Civil Service examination were made known on the 19th of February and the rest on the 20th of the same month. ua,x .y> Of the 102 Senior Civil Service candidates, two came up for shorthand only, and 32 came ud to complete examinations m which they had been only partially successful: 47 passed the exair/ nation and one of the shorthand candidates was successful. (See Gazette, 20th February 1896 ) The names of 2b3 of the Junior Civil Service candidates were published, in the order of marks, whL h his G oTe-fhird "osSSS: *" ** "" t0 ™* ** Z ™^' Of the 16 pupil-teachers who availed themselves of the regulation which allows them to come up for one branch of drawing at a time, 11 satisfied the examiner At the teachers' examination, 242 were candidates for Class D, and 124 others came up to complete a "partial pass for Class D; 198 were candidates for Class E, and 121 came up to complete a partial pass for that class. Among these 685 candidates were 179 who had already passed for Class E and were seeking promotion to Class D: and of the remainder-506 in number—lo2 were teachers in the service of the Boards, 252 pupil-teachers, and 54 normal-school students in training; while 33 were persons who had ceased to be teachers, pupil-teachers or normal students, and 65 had never sustained any such relation to the public schools onn v l7 hol l number l of 685 candidates, 219 have "passed" (115 for D, and 104 for E) and' 200 have obtained " partial pass (72 for D, and 128 for E), while 266 have failed to improve their status Only 37 have been added to the list of absolute failures, the rest of the 266 being either absent candidates or cand]dates who were unsuccessful in attempting to complete " partial mss " The names removed from the " failure " list by this examination number 27, and, as 37 names have been added to it, the list is increased by 10 (from 676 to 686). This list contains the accumulations at eighteen years, and 10 is a very small addition in comparison with the magnitude of the total As the result of the examination, 158 new certificates will be issued (54 for Class D, and 104 for Glass E), and 61 certificates of Class E will be raised to Class D. The following table exhibits some of these statistics, and shows besides that normal students are the most successful class of candidates:— I—E. lα.