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  <dc:title>'Infant assistants and unqualified teachers'</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Papers, press cuttings and correspondence regarding employment of women in infant schools who have no teaching experience or qualifications, there were called 'infant assistants'.
This covers:
Protests against London County Council decision to appoint infant assistants
NUWT campaign against employment of 'guinea girls' - unqualified women to work in elementary schools with children under 6
Age at which compulsory education should begin
Collection of statistics on numbers of unqualified persons employed as teachers</dc:description>
  <dc:date>1922 - 1934</dc:date>
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