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suggestions. The Advisory Committee
have found these reports particularly
illuminating and helpful.
2.
As I stated in my letter last
year on the same subject, the Secretary
of State has refrained from issuing any
hard and fast instructions on this matter,
and would deprecate rigid uniformity.
But there is a general feeling at this end.
that reports should be made as helpful as
possible to those not acquainted with the
areas to which the reports refer, in the
interests of those who are responsible for
advising the Secretary of State,
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in
other Colonies who want to find out what is
being done in other departments, and more
Feducational
particularly educational authorities at home,
who often refer to these reports when questions
an
of recognising service in/oversea school, or
deciding the equivalence of oversea standards
to home standards, arise. I may mention that
the Board of Education often finds it necessary
to refer to these Colonial Education Reports
in connection with these and similar questions.
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ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION IN THE COLONIES
HONG KONG EDUCATION REPORT, 1930.
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Copies of this Report have been circulated to members
It will be remembered that
with papers for this meeting.
members remarked last year on the absence of any attention to
the suggestions of the Advisory Committee relating to the
form and content of Annual Education Reports in the 1929
Report of this Colony. Members will probably agree that The
1930 Report does not show in this respect any decided improve-
or give a ment, and will fail to find in it/clear and satisfactory
account of the educational position and policy in Hong Kong.
It is proposed to send to the Director of Education a copy
of one or two of the many excellent Education Reports that are
now being received from other Colonies and prepared more or less
on the lines suggested by the Advisory Committee, in order that
he may see the advantages of such treatment of this subject.
2. Though, with reference to the criticism of the 1929
Report, a separate section has now been devoted to women's
education, the section contains very little information on the
subject, and gives no clear idea of the aims, methods or
results. The complete absence of any comparative statement
makes it impossible to form any idea of progress that may have
been made in 1930 as compared with 1929 or any preceding period
or years. The percentage of population of school-going age
actually enrolled in school is not shown generally or for any
community of either sex.
3. The only outstanding event of the year seems to have been
a revision of syllabuses. The reasons for such revision and
its main lines are not shown.
4.
It is satisfactory to find that attendance in the
vernacular middle school, which combines the study of Chinese
culture with Western studies, continues to improve.
✡vide Minutes of 19th meeting, item 5; and 25th meshing, item 3 (ii) (a),
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5.
The results in the local examinations conducted by the
Hong Kong University continue to be poor.
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