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Sciences, provided they have previously passed in all the subjects contained in the Standards under which they are prosent, ed, and provided the subjects are taught in such a way as to graduate the instruction to the different Standards. For example:-
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Standard IV. Standard V.
Book I. Propositions 1 to 20 inclusive. Book I.
Standard VI. Books I and II.
Value of a pass, in each of such cases, in Standard IV, one dollar, in addition to the proper value of the Standard; in Standard V, one dollar and a half, in addition to the proper value of the Standard; and in Standard VI, two dollars, in addition to the proper value of the Standard.
23. Managers of schools wishing to have scholars examined in one or more of these special subjects will, for the pre- sent, receive a graduated scheme for the subjects of their choice on application to the Inspector.
24. No grant will be made for any subject not specified in this code.
25. A capitation grant of one dollar will be given for each scholar in average attendance.
26. No scholar will be examined in a lower Standard than that under which he has been previously presented, not in the same Standard unless he has failed to pass in two or more subjects.
27. Scholars learning a language which is not their mother tongue, will have their intelligence tested by requiring them to explain in their own language the meaning of the passages read.
28. In Girls' Schools, one of the four hours for secular instruction may be assigned to plain needlework, which wil have the following values:-
Fair, one dollar. Good, one dollar and a half. Very good, two dollars.
29. All correspondence with the Government on subjects connected with this code must be sent through the Head of the Education Department for the time being.
Hongkong,
23rd February, 1877.
Application Schedule.
(To be filled up when application is made for a Grant-in-uid.)
1. What is the name of the School ?
2. Is it a Public Elementary School ? (a)
3. Is it a Boys', or a Girls', or a Mixed School ?
4. Where is it situated ?.....
5. What are its Dimensions
(3.)........
6. What is the Average Attendance? (c.) ......
7. Is the school-work conducted by a Time Table? (d.)
8. Is there a regularly kept School Roll? (8)
9. What Books are to be used under the several Standards?
10. What are the School-hours ?...
11. What four hours' are to be assigned to Secular Instruction?
12. What Holidays are given, and when ?
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13. What is the Manager's name, and what is his profession or occupation ?
14. What is the Master's name ?...
15. How many years' experience as a teacher has he had ?
16. What Assistants has he, and what are their names?
17. What is the Salary of the Master, and that of each of his Assistants?!
18. What annual sum is derived from School-fees 7
19. What annual sum is derived from Donations and Subscriptions ?
20. Has the School any other, and what, means of support ?....
21. What are the various bealings and amounts of Expenditure?
22. Is there any, and what, Debt connected with the School ?
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Signature of Applicant
Date of Application
FREDERICK STEWART, Inspector of Schools.
(a.) A Public Elementary School shall mean a school where elementary education is the principal part of the education given, and
where no child is refused admittance on other than reasonable grounās,
(b) Give the length, breadth and height of the room or rooms, with the extent of wall-spaço available for maps.
(c.) The Average Attendance is the total number of attendances marked in the roll within a certain period, divided by the number of
days the school has vuen taught during the same period.
(d) Enclose a Copy.
(e.) Enclose a specimen page.
() Forward a copy of each.
Examination Schedule.
(To be filled up and forwarded to the Inspector seven clear days before the date fireil for the examination.)
Date of Admission
to this School.
Age
Name of Scholar,
Con last Birth-
day).
Year, Month.
Number of Attendances of four hours each at Secular Instruction in the Year.
ln what class in School.
(The First Class Commence with the means tht highest.
lowest Cinss.
Signature of Manager. Date
Under what Standard
Last examined,
Under what
Standard
Now
to be examined.
Remarks
SUPPLEMENT TO THE ANNUAL REPORT ON GOVERNMENT EDUCATION.
ADDRESS OF HIS EXCELLENCY GOVERNOR POPE HENNESSY, AT THE CENTRAL SCHOOL, 25TH JANUARY, 1878, AT THE ANNUAL DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZES.
COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS.
Perhaps I may take this opportunity of saying a word or two to the students who are present on a subject which at one time attracted a good deal of my attention and which, close as we are to China, You are all aware that the is not an inappropriate subject in addressing an audience such as this. Government of the Great Empire close to us relies for obtaining its official element upon a system of open competitive examination, established now for many centuries in China, and you are also aware that some of the countries in Europe-I will not say following the example of China, but certainly treading in the footsteps of China-have established also a system of open competitive examination for appointments in the civil service. And at this mouent, if a clerkship is vacant in the Colonial Office, in the Board of Admiralty, in any of the great departments of the State (with one exception), any young man in England, Ireland, or Scotland, without any favour or patronage, can compete for the appointment. And what is the result? I am told by the heads of the departments in England-the Secretary of the Treasury has told me so, many of the leading officials in the public service have told me, that since this system was established they find the tone of the service has improved and they have now an admirable staff of clerks. I may add that in India a similar result has occurred. The system was, to a great extent, brought into operation in the time of Lord LAWRENCE, and his present brilliant successor, Lord LyTTON, has borne testimony to the fact that the system of open competitions for the appointments in India has been most beneficial to the administration of that great Empire. Under these circumstances I thought it possible, perhaps, to introduce the system into this Colony, and accordingly we have had already one or two examinations: On one occasion there was a clerkship It was a Chinese clerkship, and usually such a post was worth £200 per annum to be given away.
gave the appointment given by the Governor of the Colony, who looked over his list of applicants, and
Accordingly, as he might think best, but I thought it well to try the experiment of an open competition. I asked the head of the department (it was in the Magistracy) to become an examiner, and Mr. MAY was good enough to undertake the duty. I also asked a Chinese scholar, Bishop BERDON, and my Right Reverend friend consented, and to these two, I added Mr. NG CHOY, a Chinese gentleman who is now a member of the English bar. Well, these three examiners were good enough to prepare the examination papers, and they made their report to me in course of time. I was disappointed, undoubtedly, at the result of that examination. The examiners reported that none of the candidates passed the examination sufficiently well to entitle them to the appointment. The examination consisted of translating a document which had come to the Magistracy in the ordinary course of business, a Chinese document, into English, and of translating the deposition of a witness taken at the Magistracy some weeks before into Chinese, and in reading and writing from dictation. That was a simple test, and, nevertheless, eleven candidates having presented themselves, I regretted to find that the examiners could not recommend to me any one of the eleven as having properly passed the examination. Now, it would be, I think, very foolish for us to shut our eyes to a fact of that kind. The examination could hardly be simpler than it was. The clerkship to be given away was of some value, $80 a month, and the result was certainly somewhat disappointing. But, I venture to repeat what I at that time put in a minute, published in the Gazette, that looking at the report of the examiners, though I regretted the result, I felt the Chinese students who competed at that examination had shown great intelligence and industry, and I had every hope that at a subsequent examination some of them would be successful.
INSUFFICIENT TEACHING OF English,
When I visited the Central School the other day and saw Mr. FALCONER and the other gentlemen going through the daily routine of their duties, I was struck by some incidents, which it is well for us to bear in mind, because they suggest the possibility of improvements which I know Mr. STEWART has at heart. I visited one large class-room, indeed a sort of double class-room, on the other side of that passage. In that room I should think there must have been a hundred and fifty Chinese youths who I found were being instructed by three Chinese teachers. They were reading the Chinese classics. that the three Chinese teachers who were instructing them in the Chinese classics had themselves no knowledge whatever of the English language. These three Chinese teachers spoke no English; and of the pupils in that particular class-room not one could speak English. During the whole of the year we have had six hundred and ten pupils attending the school. I asked Mr. STEWART this