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[CHAPTER II.]
EDUCATION.
After having made inquiries about a great variety of female occupations, I have come to the conclusion that teaching is still the most suitable, and, under certain circumstances, the most remunerative, employment open to women. But an ordinary education no longer qualifies a woman for the position of governess in any educational establishment; if she wishes to be tolerably certain of securing an engagement it is necessary that she should be certificated, or, still better, have completed her education at Girton, Newnham, or one of the new halls opened at Oxford, and it is most desirable that she should pass the new examination of teachers instituted by the Teachers' Training Syndicate of Cambridge.
TRAINING FOR MIDDLE AND HIGHER CLASS TEACHING.
The Training College for Teachers in Middle and Higher Schools for girls (temporary address, Skinner Street, Bishopsgate Street) trains ladies who have completed their school education as teachers in middle and higher schools for girls for this examination.
The Council have obtained as a Practising School, the Bishopsgate Middle Class Girls' School. There are two divisions in the college. The course is of one year for students entering the upper division, and two years for the lower division. The following are the rules of this Institution:—
The college year is divided into three terms, each of about thirteen weeks, beginning respectively in the middle of September and January, and the beginning of May. The hours of attendance are from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on every day but Saturday.
Fees, £8 per term, payable in advance.
No residence is provided for the students, but the principal will be prepared to recommend homes to those students who require them. Students must be above the age of seventeen for the lower division, and eighteen for the higher division, at the time of admission, and must pass an entrance examination, unless they have previously passed some examination accepted in place of the entrance examination. The examinations accepted by the Council in the place of the entrance examination for the upper division are those which the University of Cambridge requires from candidates for the teachers' examination.