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machine shop, wood-working shop, smith's shop and foundry.
The Education course we also consider of
special importance, because most of the Arts students are
taking it, and because of its manifest value for spreading
British ideas and indirectly furthering British interests by
training teachers for schools in China. We think this course has been defective on the practical side; in some
instances the instruction in actual teaching appears to have
been conducted after school hours, when master and class and
students were all fatigued; in other instances studente
appear to have shirked it entirely. Te recommend that more
attention and better supervision be given to this branch of
the work. We are of opinion that two whole-time men are
required for the course; a Professor or Lecturer of Education
on the theoretical side, and a Master of Method on the
practical side. Perhaps the Goverment may be able to spare
temporarily two competent sen for the purpose.
With regard to the present two-year course for
a Commercial Diploma, which has had a trial of three years,
we understand that the course is too short to be practically
useful, that the diploma has proved unattractive as being
inferior to a degree, that hitherto no student has actually
taken it, and that in last tem's examination only one
candidate passed out of sir, It is sugested to us that,
the course having failed as now constituted, the commercial
group of subjects should be either abandoned or elevated into
one of the options of the Arts degree. We understand that
the latter alternative involves no increase of staff, and we
recommend its adoption. We further-more understand that the
Hongkong Chamber of Commerce are opposed to the abandonment;
and that, in order to give the course a full trial, they are
prepared to ask local fire to provide, for a period of five
years, the salary of the whole-time lecturer who might be
saved
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