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Show DERTH OF TEACHERS IN ENGLAND (Iondnn Standard.) In a memorandum accompanying the new regulatolns for the rellmlnary education of elementary school teachers, teach-ers, which come Into force on August 1 next, Sir Robert L. Mornnt, permanent perma-nent secretary of the board of education, educa-tion, states that It is necessary to call the serious attention of local education educa-tion authorities to the doubt whether the number of bursars and pulpl teachers now being brought annually Into the earlier stages of the teaching teach-ing profession is sufficient to maintain main-tain a supply ol adult teachers adequate ade-quate to the needs of the elementary schools of the country. After referring to the marked decrease de-crease during recent years In the number of boys and girls entering upon bursarshlp ami pupil reached- i ship In England tjie number last year being only S.J&C, against 1 0.359 in tbe i"0ious year Si:- Roliert says that the number of boys and girls brought Into tk' early stages of the profession this year, in order to secure se-cure the country against a deficiency of adult teachers In 1012, should be about 1 4.009. or rather more than half us many aain as were admitted in llkiS. |