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General. 14. Notwithstanding anything contained in clause 10 above, University graduates or persona who as matriculated students have satisfactorily completed an approved course of not less than two years at a recognized agricultural college may be admitted, to a number not exceeding five in any year, as students of Division A for one year of training with corresponding allowances; provided that they satisfy conditions (d) and (e) of the clause as for ordinary students of Division A, and trive such evidence of teaching ability or promise as the Board may require. Allowances for such students shall not be payable in any case for a longer period than one year, nor shall any such student be admitted except with an undertaking to devote his whole attention during the period to subjects of professional study and practice under the direction of the principal. 15. Every student to or for whom any of the allowances above mentioned are payable shall enter by his parent or guardian, or by some other person approved by the Board and the Minister, into a bond to return the amount paid in allowances in case he shall fail to complete his course, or be dismissed on the grounds named in clause 29 hereof, or fail to complete within the time prescribed such term of service as may be prescribed in a public primary, secondary, or technical school, or in any endowed school, in New Zealand. The bond shall be on the form supplied by the Department. No allowances shall be paid to or for any student until the said bond has been executed. 16. (I.) A studentship shall not be tenable with a Junior Scholarship of the University, or a Senior National Scholarship, or any other scholarship, if the value of any such scholarship, added to that of the studentship, exceeds .£60 per annum in any one year. (2.) None of the allowances named in clauses 10 to 14 hereof shall be payable in the case of any student for a greater period than two years; nor shall any allowance be payable to a student for any period during which he has been in receipt of salary as a teacher or pupil-teacher, or of allowance as probationer. 17. The allowances to any student shall not include university-college fees in respect of any classes at which the student's attendances and progress have not been satisfactory, or, if such fees have been paid, the amount shall be deducted from any allowances due to him, or be otherwise recoverable from him by the Board. 18. In no case shall fche number of students admitted in any year under Divisions B, ('. and D conjointly be so great as thereby to make the total number of all students in attendance at the training college more than 125. 19. All allowances to students shall, subject to the restrictions named in these regulations, be paid monthly, save that the first payment of a student's allowance may be a quarterly pavment. Curriculum. 20. The curriculum of each training college shall provide for a two-years course of training, and shall be subject to the approval of the Minister of Education. 21. Every training college shall make provision for the following: — (a.) Instruction in the principles and history of education (including elementary psychology), in school and personal hygiene (inclusive of ambulance work), and in methods of teaching. (b.) Courses in elementary practical science as suited to the requirements of public schools —namely,— (i.) Elementary physical measurements; (li.) Elementary practical agriculture, including the management of school gardens; (iii.) Domestic science; (iv.) Nature-study; and, if possible, (v.) Dairy-work. (c.) Courses in kindergarten work and in other branches of elementary handwork, especially modelling in plasticine or clay, paper-work, and bricklaying, and courses in elementary woodwork. (d) Courses in physical instruction (including swimming and life-saving), singing, drawing, military drill and rifle shooting (for men), needlework (for women). (e..) Opportunities for observation of the child and of the methods of teaching and schoolmanagement. (/.) Sufficient, regular, and co-ordinated practice in teaching. The opportunities for observation of the child and of the methods of teaching referred to in paragraph (e) shall be provided at the normal school or in any class or classes of a school or schools within convenient distance of the training coMege, if the teacher or teachers of such class or classes are approved for this purpose by the Board, on the recommendation of tin- principal and by the Minister. 22. (1.) Students receiving allowances shall in general be admitted to a training college under an obligation to complete a two-years course of training, but. for University graduates and others qualified for admission under clause 14 hereof, and for those who before admission have become qualified in all respects to obtain or have actually obtained a. teacher's certificate, a course of one year shall be deemed sufficient. (2.) Notwithstanding anything contained in the preceding subclause (1). students of Division A to a number not exceeding 25 in any one year may, until the Minister otherwise determines, be admitted for one year of training only. 23. In the arrangement of the curriculum special regard shall be paid to tin opportunities of instruction presented by the lectures jriven at the university college, and, where possible, the general education of the student shall in the main be so continued; but no student shall be permitted to take University classes that are in the judgment of the principal inconsistent with