C. 70107/30/7 [No. 12].
(Confidential.)
REVISE.
MINUTES OF THE NINETEENTH MEETING OF THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION IN THE COLONIES,
HELD IN THE COLONIAL OFFICE ON THURSDAY, THE 23RD OCTOBER, 1930, AT 11 A.M.
Present:
SIR CECIL BOTTOMLEY (in the Chair).
MISS BURSTALL.
SIR JAMES CURRIE.
SIR WILLIAM GOWERS.
SIR ROBERT HAMILTON.
LORD LUGARD.
SIR GEORGE MAXWELL.
SIR PERCY NUNN.
MR. OLDHAM.
SIR MICHAEL SADLER.
MISS WHITELAW.
LADY CURRIE.
H. H. ANNETTS (Deputy Director of Education, Nigeria).
MR. HARMAN (Assistant Director of Education, Gold Coast). PROFESSOR ROTHENSTEIN.
MR. AINSWORTH.
MR. STEVENS.
MR. TOMLINSON,
Mr. ELLIS,
MR. PARKINSON,
MR. BEVIR,
Colonial Office.
CAPTAIN NEWBOLT,
MR. MAYHEW, Joint Secretary.
MR. POYNTON, Official Secretary.
THE CHAIRMAN explained that Dr. Drummond Shiels had not yet returned from Cyprus and Palestine and that Sir John Shuckburgh was still absent from the Colonial Office. He welcomed the visitors present at the meeting
2. The Minutes of the Eighteenth Meeting* were confirmed subject to slight amendments.
3.
Secretaries' Notices.-MR. MAYHEW reported that:-
(a) Mr. W. A. Stewart had been appointed as Supervisor of Technical Education in the Palestine Department of Education. An important part of his functions would be to give advice regarding the development of indigenous arts and crafts. Prior to his appointment he had conducted a preliminary survey, accompanied by the Director of Education. Mr. Stewart had been educated in the School of Art, Bradford, and the Royal College of Art. He had had experience as head designer to a firm of silk manu- facturers, as Director of the School of Egyptian Arts and Crafts, Cairo, and as technical artist to an American archæological expedition in Egypt. He had been recommended by Professor Rothenstein.
(b) Mr. J. R. Cullen had been appointed Director of Education in Cyprus, in place of Canon Newham who had retired. Mr. Cullen was a scholar of Balliol, Hertford scholar and Craven scholar, and took a first-class in Classical Moderations and a second- class in Lit. Hum. He had been employed on the staff of Winchester College, and had also been engaged in archæological work in Asia Minor, in the course of which he acquired a knowledge of Turkish and modern Greek. Prior to his appointment, he underwent an intensive course of training in administration and school inspection, under the general direction of one of His Majesty's Inspectors of Schools.
(c) Referring to the announcement at the last meeting that the Palestine Govern- ment had accepted an annual grant of £1,000 for at least two years from the Institute of Rural Life, controlled by the Near East Foundation, New York, and with reference to a question then put by Mr. Snell, MR. MAYHEW stated that the approved scheme towards the expenses of which this grant was to be devoted was for the advancement of Arab rural communities by an improved system of education with an agricultural bias. This involved an intensive course of agricultural training for village schoolmasters at
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