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Tjdt. late criticisms of the Education Department on elsli schools have been abundantly answered It may be that most of them ha.d little or no jus- tification in fact, but experts are nevertheless aware that education in NWales, and in many' parts of England for that matter, is still a. long wuy from what it ought to L e. It is pleasant to learn that in Wiales at any rate there is to he an increase in the output of teachers, and that in- creased facilities for training young aspirants to the profession will be given in the near future. At Bangor accommodation is to be increased a train- ing school at Aberystwyth is talked of, and this project has received hearty support from the Car- diganshire County Council—a course of action, however, which the councils of Pembrokeshire and Brecknockshire have sternly declined to follow, j Glamorganshire and Monmouthshire have already sot about the building of two new colleges, and, on the whole, there is some promise for the educa- tional future of the Principality. The action of the Cardiganshire County Coureil is quite iii-tel- ligible because three-fourths if the money noces- | sary for building and equipment would be fur- nished by the Education Department, and some £ 7,000 a year would be spent -at Aberystwyth grants, fees and so on. Despite this movement for additional training schools and colleges, it must be confessed that the Welsh counties showing no burning anxiety to multiply trained teachers in their schools. Certainly there is no great rush for the appointments offered, and this being go, many people conclude that there is still dearth of teachers. The" Standard recently commented on an advertisement in the Schoo-- mas'er," showing xhat one Welsh authority was j offering a headmistress R70 a, year, and a head- muster jE90, whilst uncertificited teachers were being asked for at the rate of C45 per annum. No wonder, says our London contemporary, in re ferring to the Aberystwyth project, that one of the members of the Cardiganshire County Coun- cil expressed his views in a strong manner. He is reported to have said The scheme was idiotic and insane. Let them pass the scheme and send I it to Nelson's rronument in London, where there wer-o some 3,000 unemployed teachers, and see whvit they would do with it. What would the National Union of Teachers, when they came to Aberyst-vyth, say of the (scheme, seeing that thousands of teachers were ui able to et ap- pointments?" All this seems very phtSible, b; 11 there will be [In increased demand, we are con- vinced. for trained, as compartd with uncertifi- | eated, teachers in the'near future. And this ten- dency will be -ecelerated in our part of the coun- try by having additional provision for training them efficiently in Wales. We shall oe obliged, however unwillingly, to keep pace with other civilised countries, and necessity, if not common- seoise, will teach us that there is no saving in em- ploying inferior teachers at reduced salaries. Juni or classes, if badly taught, have to unlearn a good deal before they can begin a real scholarly training.

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