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Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies
Hong King Annual Education Report
1929
Though there are signs here and there of
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attention having been paid to the Committee's suggest-
ions regarding the form and content of Annual Reports,
much still remains to be done on the lines suggested
by the Committee in order to make the Report intelli-
gible and useful to outside readers. There is, for
instance, no separate treatment of female education.
Much of the Report consists of detailed accounts of
individual institutions, which have little interest
for readers outside the Colony.
The Report contains no indication of any
important problems under discussion or investigation,
nor does there seem to be any consciousness of any
defects in the present system, so far as the Govern-
ment is concerned. Such information as is given
indicates a very fair level of efficiency and steady
progress. In arrangements for medical inspection,
physical training and local examinations, the Colony
seems to set a good example. But the possibility of
serious defects remaining unnoticed is suggested by
the figures relating to school enrolment.
attendance, as apart from enrolment figures, be not givery though they are moet important in considering
the offioisney er eeheels. According to thesenrei-
ment figures, while 13% of the male non-European
population is attending school, the corresponuing
I can find no percentage for females is only 5.
reference in the keport to the reasons for this
difference, or to any steps that have been taken to
improve the female enrolment. Nor is there any
reference to the education of the East Indian
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