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permitted. The following shows the actual average attendance at the normal schools in each case : —

The following information is summarized from the tables. Table P2 shows the University work undertaken by students. At the University college students are required to take at least a course in English in addition to the lectures on education given by the Principals of the training colleges, who for this purpose are recognized as members of the University college staff. Any other University work undertaken varies greatly according to the aims and educational status of individual students, but is necessarily subordinated to the aims and requirements of their special professional training, and the due relation of the two claims (which at times appear to confliot with one another) constitutes one of the chief problems of organization with which the principals of training colleges have to deal. Of such work, Latin, mathematics, and mental science seemed most generally taken by students. Ninety-nine students of the Auckland Training College took a course of voice-production at the University. Table P3 contains parallel facts for special classes of professional training for which provision has been made within the training college itself or in intimate connection with it. It deals only with students who are in their second year of training. Methods of teaching, elementary handwork and kindergarten, agriculture, and drawing were taken by almost all the students. In some other subjects, such as public-school science, drill and physical culture, and vocal music, practically every student took a course either in his first or second year. Table P4 classifies the students, and shows the qualification on which they were admitted into the training college. Table P5 shows their examination status at the end of their first and second years. The analysis is of special interest at the present time, in view of the recent abandonment of general certificate examination tests for training-college students after their admission, and the substitution therefor of evidence otherwise furnished of the satisfactory completion of a training-college course as prescribed by the regulations. Five students at admission held Class C certificates, and 114 Class D. By the end of the year one student held a Class A certificate, eleven a Class B, 121 a Class C, and 158 a Class D. As has already been remarked, the regulations were revised at the beginning of the current year, and make several important changes in the work of the training college. Provision is made for the grant of training-college certificates on the principle stated, for some increase to the staff, for the addition of a second " model school " of one or other of a variety of types with a view to improve the student's opportunities of observation and teaching, and for the admission on special terms of a certain number of graduate students who are prepared during one year of attendance to devote their whole attention to subjects of professional study and practice. The following table shows the number of male and female students in training in each of the four training colleges* : — , 1910. , , 1911. , Men. Women. Total. Men. Women. Total. Auckland ... ... ... 41 59 100 37 64 101 Wellington ... ... ... 26 70 96 31 65 96 Christchuroh ... ... ... 20 66 86 23 72 95 Dunedin ... ... ... 32 66 98 40 57 97 Totals ... ... 119 261 380 131 258 389

* At end of year

-S5T Main School (exclusive of Model Secondary Schools and Second- Department, ary Department). m ,i i Junior Model Model gohool School. (p to S2) Auckland Wellington Christchurcli Dunedin 378 34 267 37 408 14 440 31 31 24 29 35 33 36