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the. requirements of his professional course, nor shall a student be permitted to take classes forming a recognized step towards a University degree unless his capacities and attainments are of a character to fit him therefor without detriment to the interests of his training as a teacher. 24. With the limitations and exceptions hereinafter mentioned, no course of training for any student shall be deemed complete that does not include attendance at a course of lectures in English at the university college, together with the following :— (a.) The subjects named in paragraph (a) of clause 21 hereof. (6) and (c). Courses of elementary science and elementary handwork occupying not less than four hours a week throughout the two years of training, of which at hast two hours a week shall be devoted to practical elementary science. (d.) The subjects named in paragraph (d) of the clause, two hours a week being given to military drill. (c) and (/). Observation of the child and of methods of teaching and practice in teaching as presoi ibed in paragraphs (c) and (/) of the clause, the time devoted to observation and practice being, in general, not less than 250 hours a year or 500 hours in all. It is important that the observation should be such as to form a basis for the work in elementary psychology and the principles of education, and that the practice should be regular and co-ordinated. 25. (1.) Students who are University graduates or who have satisfactorily completed an approved course of not less than two years at an agricultural college, or who have already satisfied the requirements of the examination for Class C, may be excused from attendance at University lectures; such students, together with those who have already passed in the subject for Class D or for Class C, may also be excused from needlework. Further exemption from attendance at science may also be granted in the case of graduates who have taken a science subject in their degree course, and of students who have completed an approved course of two years at an agricultural college. (2.) A student who is taking a science course at the university college may be exempted from attendance at a science class at the training college during the year in which he is so attending. (3.) Students having no ear for music may be excused from attendance at singing and musical theory if an approved equivalent therefor is taken as an extra subject or subjects, selected from amongst those named in paragraphs (b) and (c) of clause 21 above, and occupying not less than two hours a week throughout the period of training, the total requirement under these paragraphs being thus raised to six hours a week in all. 26. The observation of methods of teaching for which provision is made shall include in especial observation of the methods of teaching English, arithmetic, drawing, singing, natureknowledge, geography, civics, as prescribed for public elementary schools. It shall also include either (a) methods of teaching as specially adapted to the requirements of infant classes; or (b) the methods of teaching the following subjects in secondary classes —English, elementary mathematics, and the elementary stages of a foreign language; or (c) the methods adopted in teaching two or more branches of elementary science and handwork as suited to the requirements of the higher primary classes. The practice in teaching shall correspond thereto. 27. At the close of their period of training, students duly admitted under these regulations as students- of Division A or Division B who have satisfactorily completed the prescribed course of work during the two years of their attendance at the training college, or, in the case of graduates or previously certificated students, during a period of not less than one year's attendance, and who are favourably reported upon in respect both of professional promise and of educational progress, may, on the recommendation of the principal of the college and with the concurrence of the Inspector-General of Schools, receive without further examination, subject to compliance with the necessary conditions of age and health, as prescribed by the Regulations for the Examination and Clasification of Teachers, a Trained Teachers' Certificate, which shall rank in respect of attainment with certificates of Class C or with certificates of Class D, as may in each case be determined. 28. (1.) Subject to the general control and management of the Board, the principal shall have full control of the staff of the normal school and training college and of the students; he shall also have power to arrange for the several courses of instruction in accordance with the requirements named above, to allot to himself and the other members of the staff such subjects of instruction as he may find convenient and the Board may approve, to choose text-books, and to determine the course of study and training of each student. (2.) A statement shall be furnished to the Professorial Board giving the names of all trainingcollege students in attendance at the university college, and the classes approved by the principal for each student, in order that the Professorial Board may be in a position to report to the principal on the progress made by the students. 29. The Board may at any time, on the receipt of a report from the principal, dismiss a student or direct him to cease attendance at the training college, on the ground of repeated neglect of duty or gross misbehaviour, and all allowances to such student shall thereupon cease. 30. The principal shall make an annual report to the Board of the work of the training college, and the Board shall forward that report, with such other report as it may desire to make, to the Minister of Education before the 31st January in each year. 31. The Inspector-General of Schools shall inspect each training college from time to time,. and shall report annually to the Minister.

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