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314. All trainees must have passed Std. VI before entry; they are in- dentured for four years, given six months' training, and sent to Units, workshops, building development areas and offices for further training for 3 years. The Tanganyika schools, unfortunately, have failed to send enough trainees, and men have been brought to Ifunda from Kenya; but it is hoped to attract more trainees from Tanganyika, and so to raise the wage-earning capacity of the Territory, which is its primary need in its development programme. It is possible that Government may wish to send students to the Medical School at Ifunda, as it is the only school of its sort in the Territory.
Teaching of Swahili
315. The efficient use of native labour is impossible unless the Europeans responsible for their control are able to speak Swahili. The Corporation took special measures to encourage the staff to learn the language. Classes were organised in each Region and each European employee is required to pass an elementary examination in Swahili before receiving an increment.
European Education
316. The arrival of Corporation and Contractors' European staff and their wives and families created an educational problem which the Government educational system was unable to handle. There is no secondary schooling in Tanganyika, and children have to be sent to Kenya at a cost beyond the pockets of most employees; there are only two Government primary schools, and these were full and expensive; the only education was of the preparatory school and public school type, and the boarding school; and many of the staff wanted day-schools and cheap schools. To meet this pressing human problem, the Corporation agreed to build, equip, staff and administer schools at Kongwa and Urambo, and Government agreed to pay 100 per cent. of the recurrent costs of them. The Kongwa School opened on October 1, with a Headmaster and student-teacher recruited from England, assisted by four wives resident at Kongwa who have teaching qualifications and experience. The school followed a primary syllabus to 11+; thereafter, the children were divided into three streams, one preparing for the Kenya Preliminary Entrance to secondary schools, one for the School Certificate and one for general education with a technical bias. A European Apprentice- ship Scheme was being considered. The number of children attending rose from 30 to 120 in six months.
317. The Urambo School had a similar pattern; numbers were smaller, but were expected to increase to 120.
318. In the Southern Province children, scattered in small groups, used the Tanganyika Government's Schools Correspondence Course; but all parents were encouraged to send their children to Government Primary Boarding Schools, and to apply for remission of fees or for bursaries.
African Education
319. African community and school education could not begin until some measure of stabilisation had been achieved, and this depended on the arrival of families, and so on the building of villages. Urambo, first with its African housing programme, was first with its School. The emphasis was, and will be, on community rather than school education.
320. At Kongwa, a Nissen hut became the African Community Centre; each evening there were lectures in English for English-speaking Africans on subjects thogen2 by themselves: Advanced English, Palyticall Science9and
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