496
Application for grant.
Children not to be refused admission.
School not to be unneces- sary. Minimun number of Meetings.
Conditions relating to (a.) premises. staff, furni-
ture and
apparatus:
(b.) course, of instruction and time table.
22. Before a new school can be placed on the Annual Grant List, an applica- tion must be made to the Inspector by the Manager, and particulars be given as detailed in Schedule A.
23. No child may be refused admission as a Scholar on other thin reasonable grounds.
added by G. N. 158/07
Application
24. The school must not be unnecessary.
25. A school must have met on not less than 200 days in the year.
NOTE--If a school claiming an Annual Grant for the first time has not been open for a whole year, or if a school has been closed during the year under medical authority or for any unavoidable cause, a corresponding reduction is made from the number of meetings required by this Article.
26. The Government must be satisfied :-
(a.) That the school premises are healthy, lighted, cleaned, drained and ventilated, and contain sufficient accommodation for the Scholars attending the school, and that the school has a sufficient Staff, and is properly provided with suitable desks and furniture, books, maps and other apparatus. In no case there shall be less than 80 cubic feet of internal space and 8 square feet of internal area for each Unit of Average Attendance.
NOTE. The plans of all new school premises and enlargements must be approved by the Govern-
ment before such new premises and enlargements are passed under this Article.
(b.) That the course of instruction is in accordance with a Time Table,
to be approved for the school by the Inspector,
NOTE--(i). The Course of Instruction in English Schools intended for the education of Chinese
Scholars should include, in the three lowest Standards :-
(i.) Daily practice in Colloquial English.
(.) Elementary Geography,
(iii) Instruction in the Chinese Written Language,
And in the four highest Standards in addition to the above, —
(ir.) General History in Outline.
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(v.) General Geography, special importance being paid to the British Empire. (vi) Elementary Mathematics.
NOTE--(ii) The Course of Instruction in Vernacular Schools should, as a rule, include:-
(i.) The explanation of the Chinese Characters, which should keep pace with
the learning of them.
(i.) Elementary History.
(iii) Arithmetic, including Mental Arithmetic and the Multiplication Table. NOTE-(iii) Any other subject may be included in the Course of Instruction, provided that a gra-
duated scheme for teaching it be submitted to, and approved by, the Inspector.
Note IV.
27. The Income of any school must be applied only for the purposes of that of income of school. School.
Power to
of withhold-
28. The conditions required of Managers under Chapter III. must be fulfilled.
WITHDRAWAL OF GRANTS.
29. No school on the Annual Grant List will be deprived of a Grant under Articles 34 and 35 until the following conditions have been fulfilled :--
(1.) The Inspector must, in his annual report, report the school inefficient and state specifically the grounds of his judgment, and the Government must communicate the report to the Manager and give formal warning to them that the Grant may be withheld under this Article, if the Inspector again reports the School inefficient.
(2.) The Inspector must, in his next annual report and after a visit paid with due notice during the last month of the School Year, again report the school inefficient, and again state specifically the grounds of his judgment.
30. In cases where any of the conditions of Annual Grants set forth in this warn instead Code (except such conditions as are specially imposed by Law) are not fulfilled ing grant. the Government have power, after considering all the circumstances, to pay the* Grant or portions of the Grant, and give a warning to the Managers that the Grant- may be withheld next year.