La digh class school, and not an Elementary one, it matters little whom the examination is conducted":
(4) I protest against the opinions of subordinate Masters being swayed by
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in January 1882, I find myself in this very awkward predicament of having no reliable standard of the work of last half, to guide the management of the College during next half.
under my suspector of Ichoris, either by personal conversation or public College working charge. To Head Master can be responsible for the successful management of a school, if his Masters are to be alienated from him by external influence, or if they are periodically invited to ventilate their opinions, which is but a thinly disguised invitation to criticise their Head Master.
5. I protest against the abolition of the Head Master's Staff yearly Examination, which was held from 1882 to 1892 inclusive eleven times. For the first time since my arrival, availing myself of Mr. De Voeux's suggestion made at the Registrar General's Office, I gave orders that the papers, questions and answers of each Master's monthly examination of his own class for July, should be preserved, and sent to my office. I speedily discovered that it was hopeless to evolve a uniform standard; since not only had all the masters varying standards of severity and laxity in marking, but the master's standard would vary both in the questions he set on different subjects, and in his requirements of a pass;
I regret to say that in some few instances...