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less than two hours a week throughout the period of training, the total
requirement under these paragraphs being thus raised to six hours a
week in all.

27. The observation of methods of teaching for which provision is
    made shall include particularly observation of the methods of teaching
    English, arithmetic, drawing, singing, nature-knowledge, geography,
    civics, as prescribed for public elementary schools. It shall also include
    either (a) methods of teaching as specially adapted to the requirements
    of infant classes; or (b) the methods of teaching the following subjects
    in secondary classes—English, elementary mathematics, and the ele-
    mentary stages of a foreign language; or (c) the methods adopted in
    teaching two or more branches of elementary science and handwork as
    suited to the requirements of the higher primary classes. The practice
    in teaching shall correspond thereto.

Certificates.

28. At the close of their period of training, students duly admitted
    under these regulations as students of Division A or Division B who
    have satisfactorily completed the prescribed course of work during the
    two years of their attendance at the training college, or, in the case
    of students of Division C or previously certificated students, during a
    period of not less than one year’s attendance, and who are favourably
    reported upon in respect both of professional promise and of educa-
    tional progress, may, on the recommendation of the Principal of the
    college and with the concurrence of the Director of Education, receive
    without further examination, subject to compliance with the necessary
    conditions of service, age, and health, as prescribed by the regulations
    for the time being in force for the Examination and Classification of
    Teachers, a trained teacher’s certificate, which shall rank in respect
    of attainment with certificates of Class C or with certificates of Class D,
    as may in each case be determined.

General.

29. (1.) Subject to the general control and management of the Board,
    the Principal shall have full control of the staff of the normal school
    and training college and of the students; he shall also have power to
    arrange for the several courses of instruction in accordance with the
    requirements named above, to allot to himself and the other members
    of the staff such subjects of instruction as he may find convenient and
    the Committee of Advice may approve, to choose text-books, and to
    determine the course of study and training of each student.

(2.) A statement shall be furnished to the Professorial Board giving
the names of all training-college students in attendance at the University
college, and the classes approved by the Principal for each student, in
order that the Professorial Board may be in a position to report to the
Principal on the progress made by the students.

30. (1.) The Board may at any time, on the receipt of a report from
    the Principal, dismiss a student, or direct him to cease attendance at the
    training college, on the ground of repeated neglect of duty or gross
    misbehaviour, and all allowances to such student shall thereupon cease.

(2.) A studentship may also be terminated at any time if it shall
appear to the Board and the Minister that the holder does not possess
sufficient aptitude for the teaching profession to warrant further expendi-
ture in training.

31. The Principal shall make an annual report to the Board of the
    work of the training college, and the Board shall forward that report,
    with such other report as it may desire to make, to the Minister of
    Education before the 31st January in each year.

32. The Director of Education shall inspect each training college
    from time to time, and shall report annually to the Minister.

V. PROBATIONERS.

1. On the 1st January or as soon after as may be in each year, but not
   later than the 1st day of April in any year, the Board may appoint one
   probationer for each seven hundred or part of seven hundred children in
   yearly average attendance in the district.

2. (1.) The Board shall select the most suitable candidates in the district
   irrespective of their place of residence, if they possess the qualifications
   hereinafter prescribed; and shall appoint every candidate so selected to
   the nearest convenient school of Grade III or a higher grade, provided that
   not more than three probationers shall be appointed in any year to the
   same school.

(2.) In general, not less than one-half of the probationers selected in
any year shall be appointed to schools of Grades III and IV.