I further enclose a printed copy of the Scheme hitherto in force, in which all proposed omissions are marked in blue pencil and all proposed alterations are indicated (in red ink).
4. The necessity for a revision of this scheme which was first introduced in 1873, lies in the fact that during the ten years which have elapsed since the last revision of the scheme (approved of 18th of June 1883) the Colony in many respects have outgrown the Scheme of ten years ago, that consequently year by year a gradually increasing demand for the addition (as in the case of the Code in force in England) of a seventh standard for all classes of schools, and that in the purely Chinese schools the addition of arithmetic as an extra subject became also a pressing demand.
The aims I put before myself in drawing up a revision of the Scheme were (a) to embody in it the alterations already made in the provisions of the Scheme with the approval of the Secretary of State, (b) to add a seventh standard for all schools and to introduce arithmetic in the Chinese schools, (c) to rectify various minor defects and to introduce minor improvements under several heads, (d) to readjust the monetary values of the standards in our Chinese schools in proportion to the value of the education provided in our English schools, (e) to encourage and enlarge the scope of the special subjects of a secondary education allowed by the existing Scheme.
Govt. Gazette. 3th 15th Septr.
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