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by the Technical Institute, the teachers being paid out of the funds assigned by the Government to the Institute in the annual Colonial vote for education.
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West Point.
26. The Salesian Institute which maintains this school is an Italian Order which The St. has made it its work to relieve and raise the poor. This the Order attempts to do Industrial by means of schools which not only give the boys a general elementary education School, but also teach them various trades. The St. Louis Industrial School has on its rolls 72 small boys who attend as day scholars. These small boys are simply under- going an ordinary vernacular education. The school is partly, but by no means wholly, an institute to which waifs and strays are sent. These waifs and strays are taken in at various ages and they are generally older than the other boys. They are thus organised as a special class for the purposes of general education. The school has four trade departments, viz., a department of shoemaking, which is training 24 boys, a department of tailoring, which is training 18 boys, a department of carpentry, which is training 16 boys and a department of printing which is train- ing 8 boys. All the boys in these trade departments live in the school which has incidentally trained and organised from its pupils a quite effective brass band. The Salesian Institute conducts large and important trade schools in Italy and Germany. Each trade department is in charge of a lay brother who has been trained in one of the Institute's schools in Europe. Each trade department is also run on a com- mercial basis. The training given in trade departments is excellent and the school authorities have no difficulty whatever in placing their trained pupils in remunerative employment.
27. With reference to the frequently repeated criticism that the Chinese Guild system makes a technical training difficult, if not impossble, it is interesting to note that a boy trained in this school as a carpenter is admitted by the Carpenters' Guild direct on to building work as a wage-earner. The articles produced by these trade departments are distinctly good. Father Kerec assured the Chairman that his Carpentry Department carried out orders for the Furnishing Department of Messrs. Lane, Crawford, Ltd., and that the Manager of that Department was anxious to take his trained boys and to give them regular employment in his furniture shop at good wages.
We understand that a Chinese Society for the encouragement of industrial education is now negotiating with the Salesian Order through the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs with a view to getting the Order to work a school for the Com- mittee at Aberdeen. The suggestion is that the Government might hand over the old paper factory for the purpose. This school at Aberdeen will apparently be rather definitely designed for the charitable purposes which the Society has in view. But the Salesian Institute does not propose, even if it takes on this Aberdeen venture, to give up its school at West Point. On the contrary the Institute has decided to rebuild and extend its school at West Point.
III. Higher Technical Education in Hong Kong.
Singapore
28. We were considerably assisted in our inquiry by the Report of the The Technical Education Committee which was appointed in 1925 by His Excellency the Technical Governor and High Commissioner to consider the feasibility of industrial and tech- Education nical education in Singapore and the type of classes and institutions required. The 1925. Committee considered the problem under four heads---
(a) Higher Technical Education-leading to the attainment of a college. degree and the producing of fully qualified engineers, surveyors and architects;
(b) Intermediate Technical Education of the standard desirable in English clerks of works, assistant surveyors, building and road overseers, ships' engineers, architectural and other draftsmen;
(c) The Education given in trade (or artizan) schools to youths training
to become mechanics and so on.
(d) Industrial Education-where children are taught simple trades such as
carpentry besides ordinary subjects.
Committee,