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should be paid by candidates themselves. Other
alterations in examination arrangements proposed.
Subsidies to private vernacular schools
should not be curtailed.
Various financial and clerical responsibili-
ties of Heads of Schools should be transferred to
the Education Office.
Proportion of teaching periods allotted
to teachers is in many cases too small.
Queen's College should be closed.
Victoria British School should be closed.
The Vernacular Middle School is a luxury
and should be handed over to private interests.
The posts of 2 Medical officers of Schools
and 3 School Nurses should be abolished.
The European teaching staff should take
their leave when it is due, irrespective of the
time of year, and not all go home in the spring.
The Hong Kong Government should not
finance the training of teachers in England in
preparation for service in the Colony.
The Commission apparently recommend that study leave should notin future be granted to
teachers.
The rule that a Mistress refunds the whole
of her passage money on resigning before completion
of probationary period should be rigidly enforced.
Appointments to Headships and Senior
teaching posts should be by merit and not by
seniority.
Much of the teaching now done by Europeans
could