ABSTRACT
The idea that certification should follow pupil-teacher ship and subsequent teacher training was a natural development. For the preparatory school assistant this was to take the form of a short teaching diploma course at Oxford University. In the late twentieth century the assistant teachers have achieved through their Society, with its district branches, its subject groups, its group broadsheets, its annual meetings and its journal, a cohesion such as the IAPS achieved at the beginning of the twentieth century. The use of the radio in preparatory schools made very slow progress in the early days. School broadcasting was instituted in 1926 yet three years later, at the time of the first meeting of the central council for school broadcasting. The development of both the Association and the Society has worked for the benefit of the schools themselves. Preparatory school assistants have progressed far since their early reliance for employment on educational agencies such as Gabbitas-Thring.
