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changes which became necessary in consequence of the transfer of the conduct of the examinations from the local Board of Examiners to the Syndicate of the University of Cambridge, and involved (a) a change of the time of examination (the month of December being substituted for the month of November as more convenient), (b) arrangements referring to the local supervision of the examination hours by the Inspector of Schools and others, (c) the correspondence arrangements concerning with Cambridge, and applicants to be conducted by the Inspector of Schools, (d) selection of certain subjects and books by the Inspector of Schools (in place of the Board of Examiners), and (e) publication of such details in the Government Gazette.
The new stipulations introduced into the scheme are taken from the Singapore scheme and may therefore be considered approved in principle. These innovations refer to the selection of place of study by the candidate himself (instead of the Board of Examiners) and to the production of a medical certificate. The former of these two innovations is embodied in paragraph 3 of the Amended Scheme, the first half of which paragraph is literally taken from the Singapore Scheme and the second half from paragraph 174 of the original Hongkong Scheme. The reason for this innovation is that it was found during the last few years that Roman Catholic students were not brought forward to compete for the Scholarships because they had not the liberty of proposing a College like Dublin or other constitution of their own choice subject to the approval of the Government, as in Singapore. The only other innovation refers to...