ABSTRACT
The student-teacher scheme continues to be vividly remembered in the minds of the diminishing band of men and women who experienced it. It is not, however, represented so forcefully in the classic historical accounts of the development of teacher training. Gosden mentions the scheme only by way of a passing reference and a solitary footnote.1 Dent makes a brief allusion to the scheme as finding favour with local authorities but less amongst the teachers themselves.2 Tropp records the scheme’s existence in a single line.3
