Students who have graduated with honours will have to decide before they begin to train, whether they wish to become specialist teachers and whether they have sufficient intellectual capacity to do so.  Generally speaking, a student who has obtained third-class honours will do better to prepare herself for ordinary form work; she is not likely to obtain control of the teaching of her own subject in a first-rate school, though doubtless she will often get the opportunity to take some classes under the direction of the specialists.  Graduates in high honours will usually desire to devote themselves mainly to the subject in which they have proved their ability, and their training must be adapted to their end.  Modern language or English specialists will need practical training in phonetics, for example:  mathematicians require to study modern methods of teaching their subject, and so forth.  The best training colleges, of course, provide for such cases; in this respect, University training-departments have the advantage over others, since they can secure the services of experts for the discussion of their own subjects.

There remains, lastly, the case of the student who, while definitely desiring to teach, wishes at the same time to go on with her own work, to undertake research or advanced or independent study.  Such an one will aim at a University or College appointment, in the hope of pursuing her own work under congenial conditions.  At Oxford and Cambridge a woman is, at this stage and always, definitely at a disadvantage by reason of her sex.  For her there are scarcely any fellowships or post-graduate scholarships, and too often the promising scholar is caught up in the whirl of teaching for her daily bread at the very moment when it is most necessary for her to have leisure and ease of mind.  Few things are more required in women’s education at the moment than liberal endowments for post-graduate study.  The comparatively new Federation of University Women Graduates has done good work by making a list[3] of the opportunities available for women graduates, either by open competition or otherwise, at the various Universities and elsewhere:  it has also founded, and twice awarded, an annual fellowship for a woman who has already published a distinguished contribution to learning.  But much more is needed in this direction if women are to have the same chances as men to qualify themselves for the higher university appointments.  At almost all the new Universities men and women are nominally alike eligible for every teaching post.  In practice, women are rarely if ever selected for the higher positions.  Sex prejudice undoubtedly counts for something in this result.  It may be assumed that, with two candidates of equal merit, preference will certainly be given to the man:  indeed, it is certain that a woman must be exceptionally qualified and far more distinguished than her male competitors to stand a chance of a professorial appointment even in the most