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 WOMAN'S WORK 604 examinations specified, may be recognised at once (provided that they are not less than eighteen years of age) as uncertificated teachers. Persons over eighteen years of age who desire to be recognised as uncertificated teachers, by virtue of their success in an examination other than the prehminary examination for the elementary school teachers' certificate, should forVard to the Board of Education, either directly or through the local education authority, the certificate of their success in the examination, and should state the exact date of their birth. It will also be necessary, before such candidates can be recognised as uncertificated teachers, that they should produce a satisfactory medical certificate in the form approved by the Board. Uncertificated teachers are eligible for appointment to permanent posts as assistant teachers on the staff of a public elementary school, but are not, except under special circumstances, eligible for the post of head teacher. Uncertificated teachers may become quali- fied for recognition as certificated teachers by passing the certificate examination held by the Board of Education. Certificated Teachers In order to be recognised as a certificated teacher, a candidate must have passed the final examination for students in training colleges or the certificate examination of the Board of Education, or must possess one of the other qualifications named. Persons who desire to be recognised as certificated teachers by virtue of their success in any examination other than the certificate examination of the Board of Education, or one of the examinations for students in train- ing colleges, should apply to the Board either directly or through the local education authority for the area in which they desire to teach, and should forward the certificate or certificates on which they base their claim for recognition. Before any person can be recognised as a certificated teacher, it will be necessary that she should satisfy the Board of Education in the manner prescribed by the elementary school teachers' superannuation rules as to her age and physical capacity. Information as to the requirements of these rules will be sent on application to the Board. A teacher who is qualified for recognition as a certifi- cated teacher, with the exception that she has failed to satisfy the Board as to her phy- sical c«ipacity, may, if the Board think fit, be given the status and position of a certificated teacher for the purposes of the code, but not for the purposes of the Elementary School Teachers (Superannuation) Act, 1898. A certificated teacher will receive a certifi- cate from the Board, on making application for that purpose, at any time after her recog- nition. This certificate may be endorsed by the Board when the teacher has, within twenty-four consecutive months, completed one year's service as a student-teacher, an uncertificated teacher, or a certificated teacher in England or Wales in a public elementary school, or a certified efficient school or a certified school for blind, deaf, defective, or epileptic children, or a poor law school, or a certified industrial or day in- dustrial school, or a certified reformatory. Certificated teachers Who have not been trained in a training college may be admitted to such a college for a one-year course of training as " certificated students." Their time at the college will be devoted mainly to improving their general education and to such professional training as will best supple- ment their previous experience. They will enter for a final examination in the last term of their course. If they complete their course of training satisfactorily, a statement of the fact will be endorsed on their certificates. Certificated teachers are eligible for appointment to permanent posts on the staff of a public elementary school. Before they can be appointed head teachers they must, unless they have obtained their parchment certificates, have completed the service required. Further, they must, except in special circumstances, unless they are recog- nised by the Board as certificated teachers as from August i, 19 10, or some earlier date, have completed satisfactorily a course of training approved by the Board under the regulations for the training of teachers for elementary schools. Supplementary Teachers Where the Board are satisfied that the circumstances of the case render it necessary, they may, on application of the local education authority, recognise as supple- mentary teachers suitable women over eighteen years of age who are specially approved by H.M. inspector for their capacity in teaching. A candidate for recognition as a supplementary teacher must produce a satisfactory medical certificate in a form approved by the Board. The Board may make it a condition of the recognition or continued recognition of supplementary teachers in the area of any local education authority that the authority make suitable provision for enabling such teachers to prepare and improve themselves for the practical Work of teaching; and in the case of any individual supplementary teacher that she shall avail herself of any such provision, or that she shall receive such other special training as the inspector may approve. By passing one of the examinations named by the Board, supplementary teachers may become qualified for recognition as uncertifi- cated teachers. Teachers of Domestic Subjects The Board no longer themselves hold examinations for diplomas in cookery, but diplomas granted by certain recognised training schools, after a course of training and examination laid down by the Board, qualify their holders to teach these subjects in public elementary schools either in centre or in school courses. Diplomas in cookery, laundry work, and housewifery, separately or in combination, are recognised by the Board.