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CHAPTER V.
TEACHING STAFF.
28. Every school must have a Head Teacher who shall be responsible for the general control and supervision of the instruction and discipline. Except in special circumstances approved by the Director, the Head Teacher must undertake no outside duties which occupy any part of the school hours.
29. The Staff of a school may be composed of Certificated Teachers, Passed Student Teachers and Student Teachers. It must be adequate.
30. In considering the adequacy of the Staff, the Director will have regard to the circumstances and requirements of the locality and the organisation and co-ordination of other schools in the neighbourhood, the arrangement of the premises for teaching purposes, the number of pupils in attendance, their organisation and proficiency, the nature of the approved course of instruction, the qualification of each member of the Staff and his suitability for the work assigned to him, and the regular absence of any Teacher during school hours for the purpose of receiving professional training or otherwise,
31. In English and Upper Grade Vernacular Schools forty, and in Lower Grade Vernacular Schools fifty is the maximum number of pupils which may at any time be under the instruction of one Teacher, except when Classes are massed for such purposes as drill, needlework or singing.
Note. Whenever owing to temporary difficulties it is found necessary to increase this number, the
circamstances should at once be reported to the Director.
32. In English Schools the Staff will not be considered adequate unless it is in accordance with the conditions of this Article.
(a.) The Staff of the Higher Classes shall consist of Certificated Teachers or partly of Certificated and partly of Passed Student Teachers in a ratio of not less than two to three.
(b) The Staff of the Remove Classes shall consist of Certificated Teachers or partly of Certificated, Teachers and partly of Passed Student Teachers in a ratio of not less than one to three.
(c.) The Staff of the Lower Classes shall consist of Certificated Teachers or partly of Certificated Teachers and partly of Student Teachers (whether Passed or otherwise) in a ratio of not less than one to three.
(d) In schools where the average attendance exceeds 200 the Head
Teacher shall not be reckoned for the purposes of this Article. (e.) The Staff of the Infant Classes must consist of Certificated Teachers or Passed Student Teachers or partly of either and partly of Student Teachers in a ratio of not less than one to three.
(A) In English Schools where there are Chinese boys there shall be one Vernacular Student Teacher (whether Passed or otherwise) for each 100 Chinese boys enrolled in Remove and Lower Classes, in addition to the Staff required under the preceding part of this Article.
CHAPTER VI.
PREMISES AND ACCOMMODATION.
33. The following conditions, in addition to any required by law, must be complied with :—
(a.) In English and Upper Grade Vernacular Schools there shall be not less than 120 cubic feet of internal space and 12 square feet of internal area, and in Lower Grade Vernacular Schools not less than 100 cubic feet of internal space and 10 square feet of internal area, for each pupil in attendance.
CHAPTER VII.
COURSES OF STUDY.
34. The Correspondent shall forward to the Director the Course of Study of his school for the School Year, not later than 1st May. The Director may withhold his approval of the whole Course or any portion thereof, and the Cor- respondent shall thereupon be required to modify it accordingly.
35. Two or more Courses may be taken by one school, provided that it is shewn to the satisfaction of the Director that there is sufficient Staff to provide adequately for such a differentiation of studies.
tion ani
Local
36. There shall be a Course of Study for Class 1 in preparation for the Matricula. Matriculation or Senior Local Examination of the Hongkong University, and a Course of Study for Class 2 in preparation for the Junior Local Examination Examin of the Hongkong University.
Note. These cxaminations are intended to meet the teals of Hongkong Schools. The University Authorities will consider additions to and variations from the publishet Coure if submitted by the Correspondent of a school through the Director of Education not later than st May.
tions.
Remove and
Special
37. The Course of Study in the Remove and Lower Classes should be of equal Course in difficulty with that in force in Government Schools of the same standing. In the Lower case of Chinese boys, unless specially exempted by the Director, it should include Classes instruction in the Chinese written language for at least six hours a week. No studies and Chinese boy failing to pass a qualifying entrance examination in the Chinese writ entrance ten language based on a two years' course of study, may be admitted without for Chinese special reference to the Director.
examination
boys.
38. Infant Classes will be recognized only if they partake of the nature of Infant "Kindergarten", and are suitably equipped and tauglit as such.
39. The Course of Study with an analysis thereof showing the number of bours given weekly to each subject, and the Time Table of each Class or Standard must be framed and hung up in each Class room.
Classes.
40. In Lower Grade Vernacular Schools a three years' course of study will Lower be considered sufficient.
CHAPTER VIII.
GENERAL CONDITIONS.
41. No pupil may be refused admission on other than reasonable grounds.
42. The income must be applied solely to the purposes of the school.
Grade
Vernacular Schools,
43. In the case of English Schools, new pupils may not be admitted to Age limit. Classes 8, 7 and 6, if they are over the ages of 14, 15 and 16 years respectively, without special reference to the Director.
CHAPTER IX.
NATURE, AMOUNT AND ASSESSMENT OF GRANTS.
44. The Annual Grant is made up of the several Grants enmperated in the following Articles.
Note (i.) In the case of Capitation Orants the sum mentioned is the amount of a year's Grant for cach
pupil, reckoning by the Average Attendance.
Note (1.) A fraction of an Attendance, if it exceeds 5, may be counted as an additional Attendance,
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