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Hon. Colonial Secretary,
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I.
The problem affects the Senior and Junior
04 AUG 13 Assistant lasters of the Colony i.e. the lasters of the District Schools and British Schools as well as those of Queen's College. But as the others are eligible for promotion to Queen's College, and can only look for promotion at Queen's College, the problem may
be stated in terms of Queen's College.
In the Upper School as the studies become more advanced, special teaching, by special masters, becomes necessary, and the Class master system, by which one man teaches a group of boys for a year in all subjects, is abandoned. Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, History, Chinese, are all special subjects, and to these Normal Teaching may be added. They should be taught according to a syllabus draw up for a group of Classes by one Master responsible for the whole, and taught either by himself alone or with the help of other masters to some extent under his guidance.
This being so, it is obviously undesirable
that the masterships above named should be paid at different rates, because if the masters in charge of them or any of them are absent, whether permanently or temporarily, their places must be taken by their understudies, however junior they may be.
There are 13 English Assistant lasters at Queen's College, and it is improbable that they will all in turn rise to be Second Laster. It is practically impossible that they should all in turn be Headmaster, and their prospects of promotion outside the Colony are negligible. It comes to this, therefore, that the masters should be paid a salary which will enable them to live in such manner as the Government may consider to be consonant with their position and seniority, from year to year of their service, without considering the off chance of any other advance-
-ment.
II.
There are several distinct lines along which economies may be made at Queen's College. These are:-
(a).