| | | ADDITIONAL. | +-----------------+---+---+---+-----+-----+-----+---+---+------+ |Schools connected| | | | | | | | | | |with | | | | | | | | | | |National Society | | | | | | | | | | |or | | | | | | | | | | |Church of England|405|483|395|1,152| 70| 15| --| --| 2,520| | | | | | | | | | | | |Wesleyan Schools | 25| 45| 34| 107| 8| 1| --| --| 220| | | | | | | | | | | | |Roman Catholic | | | | | | | | | | |Schools | 46| 71| 51| 298| 8| 3| --| --| 477| | | | | | | | | | | | |British, | | | | | | | | | | |Undenominational | | | | | | | | | | |and other Schools| 41| 76| 76| 288| 41| 10| 1| --| 533| | | | | | | | | | | | |Board Schools |146|246|358|2,771|1,956|2,106| 8| --| 7,591| +-----------------+---+---+---+-----+-----+-----+---+---+------+ |Total |663|921|914|4,616|2,083|2,135| 9| --|11,341| +-----------------+---+---+---+-----+-----+-----+---+---+------+ These tables show a considerable difference between the salaries paid in Board and in Voluntary Schools, the Board School average being £91 3_s._ 10_d._ against the highest Voluntary average of £69 14_s._ 3_d._ In rural districts also extra duties of an onerous nature, such as teaching in the Sunday-school, playing the organ in church, getting up village concerts, and performing parochial duties generally, are often imposed by the clerical managers of Voluntary Schools. Small School Boards also are not wholly guiltless in the matter. Particulars as to these exactions may be learnt from the publications of the National Union of Teachers, which is making a determined stand against their imposition. The highest salaries are given by the London School Board. Trained assistants (female) begin at £85 a year, and head mistresses receive from £200 to £300. Higher salaries are given for special work, and in the large provincial centres also it may be said without inaccuracy that the regulation scale is constantly broken in order to secure good teachers of special subjects. In London pupil teachers’ schools the salaries of assistant mistresses begin at £125 a year, rising by annual increments of £5 to £150. Assistant masters in similar posts receive £140 to £170 per annum. Salaries for both sexes are said to be rising gradually throughout the country, and although a contrary movement has recently been initiated in the London School Board, it is hardly likely that it will be carried out to any great extent.