60
Arca.
Population
(in 1914).
Date.
Primary. Secondary. or University.
TABLE TO SHOW THE PERCENTAGE OF EXPENDITURE DEVOTED TO EDUCATION IN VARIOUS COLONIES.
Name of Colony.
NUMBER OF SCHOOLS.
Children
Percentage devoted to Education.
ATTENDANCE.
EXPENDITURE,
Superior
On
Enrolment. Average. Educa- Total.
tion.
attending per 100 of
population.
sq. m.
£
£
1913-14
161
9
1 25,690 15,290 22,958
222,177
Barbadoes,
166
176,397
8.4
9.8
1914-15
153
9
1
25,162
14,409 22,009
236,795
1914-15
11,475
6,075 9,068
95,661
Grenada,
133
71,082
8.4
9'1
1915-16
50
11,254
5,859 9,349 106,145
1913-14
277
51,930
29,781 67,862 951,982
Trinidad and Tobago,
1,754 & 114
357,553
9.1
7:0
1914-15
277
0
51,197
35,662 | 68,346
990,716
1913-14
26
1
?
4,181
2,308 2,306 38,173
St. Vincent,
150
41,877
5:3
6:14
1914-15
26
1
4,205
2,189 2,374 38,045
1913-14
?
?
British Guiana,
89,480
309,938
1914-15
228
1
36,660
44,000 502,532
21,093 44,044 622,025
6:800
7'0
1914
151
14
22,414
Mauritius,
720
383,257
1915
151
14
22,765
14,924) 41,695
14,884 | 41,172 869,438
710,181
3.9
5'3
Ceylon,
25,332 4,260,700
1914
2,918
1 or 2
356,530; 164,804 | 3,699,594
8:37
4'45
Singapore and Straits Settlements,
Singapore 217
1914
Primary & Secondary
Av. Enrol.
28,080
25,260; 50,436
1,187,689
Penang 388
761,521
220
3:3
4'3
Malace?
Av. Enrol.
1915
237
28,280
25,384 | 52,805 | 1,189,599
1914
631
20
20,216
14,134| 29,282 | 1,075,622
Hongkong,
391
501,300
1915
047
20
20,089
14,701 | 32,807 | 1,514,926
2.9
2.6
1916
606
19
21,382
15,775 32,110 | 1,107,991