For further particulars respecting scholarships (of which there are several), &c., apply to the Principal at the College.
The Teachers' Training Syndicate of Cambridge issue the following scheme:—
I. An Examination in the Theory, History, and Practice of Teaching will be held at Cambridge, and at other places if so determined by the Syndicate, in June, for persons who have completed the age of twenty before June 1st, and certificates will be awarded to those who have passed the examination satisfactorily.
II. No candidate can be admitted to the examination unless he or she has either—(1.) Graduated in some university of the United Kingdom; or (2.) satisfied the examiners in Parts I. and II. of the Previous Examination; or (3.) obtained a certificate in one of the Higher Local Examinations of the Universities of Oxford or Cambridge; or (4.) obtained the certificates of the Oxford and Cambridge Schools Examination Board in the subjects accepted by the University as equivalent to Parts I. and II. of the Previous Examination; or (5.) satisfied the examiners in one of the Senior Local Examinations of the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, or Durham, in English, and at least one language, ancient or modern, and in Euclid and Algebra; or (6.) passed the examination for matriculation at the University of London.
III. The subjects for examination will be—
(1.) The theory of education.
(a.) The scientific basis of the art of education; characteristics of childhood and youth; order of development and laws of growth, and operation of mental faculties; natural order of the acquisition of knowledge; development of the will; formation of habits and of character; sympathy and its effects.
(b.) Elements of the art of education; training of the senses, the memory, the imagination, and taste, the powers of judging and reasoning; training of the desires and of the will; discipline and authority; emulation, its use and abuse; rewards and punishments.
(2.) The general history of education in Europe since the revival of learning. A general knowledge will be required of systems of education which have actually existed, of the work of eminent teachers, and of the theories of writers on education up to the present time.
(3.) The practice of education. This subject will consist of two parts:—