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 6o3 The sphere of woman's work is ever widening, and now there are innumerable professions and businesses by which the enterprising woman can obtain a livelihood. This section of Every Woman's Encyclopedia, therefore, will serve as a guide-book, pointing out the hich-road to | success in these careers. It will also show the stay-at-home girl how she may supplement her dress allowance and at the same time amuse herself. It will deal with : Professions Woman's Work in the Colonies Little Ways of Making Pin- Doctor Canada Money Civil Servant Austialia Photography Ntirse South Ajrica Chicken Rearing Dressmaker ^ Actress New Zealand Sweet Making Colonial Nurses China Painting Musician Colonial Teachers Bee Keeping Secretary Training f 01 Colonies Toy Making Governess Colonial Outfits Ticket Writings Dancing Mistress^ etc. Farming, etc. etc., etc. OCCUPATIONS FOR. WOMEN No. 4 (continued). HOW TO BECOME AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHER Continued front pa^e 4gi, Part 4 By ALFRED BARNARD Author of " Every Way of Earning a Living^'' " Our Sons and Daughters," etc. ruRiNG their course in a training college ^^ students receive instruction in the theory and practice of teaching, and also instruction of a general character in preparation for their final examination at the end of their course. Success in this final examination entitles the students to recognition as certificated teachers, subject to their satisfying the requirements of the elementary school teachers' superannuation rules, particulars of which may be had on application to the Board. Under certain conditions, students may follow special courses of training with a view to obtaining recognition as certificated teachers in schools for blind, deaf, or men- tally defective children. The final examination for students in training colleges is, as a rule, conducted by the Board of Education. In certain cases, however, alternative examinations are accepted in place of parts of the Board's final examination. Students of special merit may be allowed to follow university courses and to take examinations forming a recognised stage in a university degree course. Such students, however, must be certified as physically fit to endure the strain of these studies, and they must further have given evi- dence of special merit beyond that required of ordinary candidates for admission to a training college. No student is allowed to follow a degree course who has not passed either the preliminary examination for the elementary school teachers' certificate with distinction in seven subjects, or some other examination accepted by the Board for this purpose. No student is allowed to follow a degree course unless she is qualified, before entering the training college, to enter upon the full degree course without further examination. Uncertificated Teachers Pupil-teachers and other persons who have passed the preliminary examination for the elementary school teachers' certificate, or an alternative examination, may not in all cases be able at present, owing to the limited supply of colleges, to secure the advantages of a course of training in a training college, and in some cases, even if such a course of training could be obtained, it may be neces sary, for personal reasons, that the candidate should at once begin to serve as a teacher and to earn a salary. To meet such cases as these, persons who have passed the pre- liminary examination for the elementary school teachers' certificate, or one of the