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Course A.

Course B.

General elementary physics.

Three lectures per week, with two hours per week of laboratory work, during the session.

Properties of matter, electricity and magnetism, heat.

Three lectures per week during the session, with laboratory work during two terms.

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Engineers' Course (Sect. B.)

Two lectures per week for two terms.

Course A. General chemistry.

Three lectures per week during the session.

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

The Department of Education is organised to meet the needs of students preparing either for Secondary or Primary Teaching; and further provision will be made for those who may desire to devote themselves to some special line of educational enquiry, to qualify as teachers in particular subjects, or to prepare themselves for official posts.

The Diploma in Education is intended for graduates, and qualifies for admission to Column B of the official Register of Teachers. The courses in Education which form part of the degree in Arts are set out on pp. 232, 233.

DIPLOMA IN EDUCATION

ORDINANCE XVII (XV)

I. The University shall grant a Diploma in Education which shall be awarded in pursuance of a resolution of the Senate.

2. A Board shall be appointed which shall be responsible for courses of study qualifying for the Diploma, and shall consist of :

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(a) The Vice-Chancellor, the Professor of Education, the Professor of Philosophy, and the Professor of Physiology.

(b) Two members of the Faculty of Arts appointed by the Council on the recommendation of that Faculty, and two members of the Faculty of Science appointed by the Council on the recommendation of that Faculty.

(c) Six other persons appointed by the members of the Board above mentioned in Clause 2 (a) and (b). 3. The Board shall regularly report its proceedings to

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the Faculties of Arts and Science. Either Faculty shall have power to refer back once any part of the proceedings of the Board.

4. The proceedings of the Board shall be regularly laid before the Senate, which shall have power to review, refer back, amend, or disallow any act of the Board.

5. Regulations shall determine :

(a) The academic qualifications of candidates for the Diploma.

(b) The subjects of examination for the Diploma. (c) The time or times at which each examination shall be held.

(d) The conditions on which a candidate may offer himself for a Diploma as a teacher of a special subject.

(e) The periods for which members of the Board appointed in pursuance of Clause 2 (b) and (c) shall hold office.

6. The fee for the course of study for the Diploma in Education shall be 10, and an additional fee of £5 shall be paid for the course of study for the Diploma in a special subject.

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REGULATIONS

The Constitution of the Board

Members of the Board appointed under Clause 2 (b) (c) of Ordinance XVII (XV) shall hold office for three years and shall be eligible for re-appointment.

2.

Courses of Study and Examinations

Candidates before commencing the course of study for the Diploma must have in all ordinary cases graduated, or passed the Final examination for a degree in Arts or

Science in this or some other University of the United Kingdom, provided that a candidate who has passed in Education as a subject for the degree may not receive the Diploma until he has further passed in some subject other than Education (not being a subject previously taken by him) prescribed for the Final examination for the degree of B.A. or B.Sc.

3.

The examination for the Diploma shall be partly in theory and partly in practice.

(a) Theory: Candidates shall be required to pass a written examination in the subjects prescribed under 4.

(b) Practice: Candidates shall be judged in respect of practice :

(i) Upon reports by the Professor of Education or other approved teachers in the Department of Education on their work in teaching during their period of training, and upon reports prescribed under 4 (ii).

(ii) By teaching before the Examiners and submitting to them written records of their work in school.

4. (i) The subjects of the course of study and examination for the Diploma shall include :—

(a) Logic, ethics, and psychology, including psycho

physiology, in their application to education. (b) Educational theory and its applications to discipline and instruction, with special reference to methods of teaching the usual subjects of the secondary school curriculum; school organisation; principles of general physiology; school hygiene.

(c) A prescribed period in the history of educational theory and practice.

In connexion with any two of these divisions (a) (b) (c) a book or portion of a book shall be prescribed.

(ii) Candidates shall also be required to attend for a prescribed period in approved practising schools, the amount of time being at least one hundred and twenty hours; they shall be required to present reports from the Principals and to attend criticism and demonstration lessons.

5. Before admission to the examination, candidates shall present certificates of (a) having fulfilled the conditions as to practical teaching and (b) attendance upon a course of study in the above subjects approved by the Board for at least one session subsequent to their Final examination for a degree or other qualifying examination as provided under 2; but in the case of a student who has taken honours in the Final examination for a degree, after spending four academic years at some University of the United Kingdom, such student may present himself for the examination at the end of two terms taken continuously in the same session.

No course of study shall be approved which involves an average attendance upon less than five lectures per week, provided that for any one hour of lecture two hours of laboratory work may be substituted.

6. Persons who are actually engaged in teaching, and who, before January 1, 1901 (a) have graduated, or passed in the Final examination for a degree, in this or some other University of the United Kingdom, or (b) have obtained some other qualification in general education which the Board may consider satisfactory, shall be admitted to the examination for the Diploma in Education on presentation (i) of certificates of attendance upon an approved course of study, including not less than fifty lectures in the University, in the theory, practice, and history of education; (ii) of certificates from the Governors or Head Master or Head Mistress of a secondary school, testifying

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