HONG KONG ANNUAL REPORT, 1952
cases. All schools must be administered by a respon- sible supervisor and, in addition, a clear distinction has been drawn between the fully trained teacher and the teacher academically qualified but without professional training. Further details on the effects of this Ordin- ance are given in the chapter on Legislation on page 115.
The schools in the Colony may be classified as follows:--
1) Government schools which are staffed and maintained by the Education Department: in this cate- gory may be placed the three teacher training colleges. and the Technical College.
(2) Grant schools which are run by missionary bodies with the financial assistance of Government under the provisions of the Grant Code.
(3) Subsidized schools which receive a subsidy from Government under the Subsidy Code.
(4) Schools financed by the Government of the United Kingdom for children of service personel and those entirely non-secular in character, which are exempt from the provisions of the Education Ordinance, 1952.
(5) Private schools.
There are twenty grant schools, some of which are boarding schools. All of them give secondary education and the majority have primary classes as well. Under the terms of the grant code, Government pays the difference between approved expenditure and the income of the schools from tuition fees. Approved expenditure includes all salaries, most of the running costs, and the rent of school premises; a grant-aided school which owns its own building may be given an annual building depreciation grant to be used solely as a rebuilding
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