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    i THE BEYISED CODE. 193

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    1. A Revised Code Of Regulations. Presen...

    raise the money in the best way he can . The pupil-teacher system rests upon a deed of apprenticeship , which now lasts for five years ,

    "but that agreement is not stamped , and consequently not legally binding . Under the New Code the agreement would be terminable

    at six months' notice . Also masters of day-schools are to be permitted to teach in night schools ; pupil-teachers may be

    instructed there also . If it be true that the health of the pupilteacher , especially as regards girls , suffers from over-work , what

    is to be said to this system ? The pupil-teacher system , would degenerate to the old monitorial one , —with what result we can

    easily guess . It is only ten years since the first pupil-teacher went into a training college , and the first pupil-teacher who left a

    training college as a certificated master only went out January 1858 . If the Government grant be withdrawn , several of the training

    colleges must be closed . The regulations of the " New Minute" must of necessity throw

    increased liability upon voluntary aid . It will fall heavily on many districts where difficulty is found in raising sufficient funds , and the

    deficiency will then have to be made up hy the clergy and ministers already overburdened . The managers of schools belonging to

    Manchester , Sheffield , York , and Stepney , average their losses under the New Code from one to two-thirds .

    Such are the broad principles upon which the " New Minute " has been framed . Before the subject came before Parliament some

    of the most obnoxious rules were softened ; and at the beginning of the present year , " A Revised Code of Regulations " was printed

    with proposed alterations , but the main features of the measure remain unchanged . We all know the consternation with which

    the New Code was received , and its all but universal condemnation . Petitions flowed in from all quarters ; and the press generally , with

    the exception of the Times and Nonconformist , was against the measure . During the latter part of March , Mr . Walpole brought the

    subject before the House , _* , after some discussion Government so far gave way as to permit his propositions to be taken into consideration ,

    and the debate stands adjourned to May 5 th . We subjoin Mr . Walpole ' s proposed resolutions .

    schools " 1 . , That it is , inexpedient where it is that proposed the whole to give amount Grovernment of such aid aid shoul to elementary d depend

    on the individual examination of each child in reading , writing , and arith ~ metic . " 2 . That the system of ing hfor the of examination

    would be unequal in its operation group , and y an age inadequate purpose test of the work done education in the school has , and been speciall lected y disadvantageous . for those children whose early neg

    the " foregoing 3 . That the resolutions provisions , would of the , if Revised unamended Code , , increase in the points the difficulty referred of to ex in - tending the benefits of the Grovernment grants to poor and neglected

    districts . " 4 . That the refusal of portion of the parliamentary grantson

    account of any children who have any once passed in the highest class of exami , -

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    I The Beyised Code. 193

    i THE BEYISED CODE . 193

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1862, page 193, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051862/page/49/