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students through the schools of the Colony, in order to
practice teaching, not only under the eye of the College
staff, but of the teaching staff in the schools. These
methode are adopted by training institutions in England, and
the introduction of the same methods to this Colony would
enable the Government to draw upon a supply of far better
equipped teachers in the future, than has hitherto been
case. The Commissioners are of the opinion that while the
heads and senior masters of the Government schools should for
some time to come be recruited from England, the Hong Kong
University graduate teachers should be encouraged to remain
in Government service, with a view to taking up in the future
some of the higher posts in the Education Department.
32. If it be possible in the future, a preferential scale
of salary should be given to the graduate Anglo-Chineso
teachers, to distinguish them in status from the non-graduate
Anglo-Chinese and Vernacular teachers, The Commissioners would
suggest that in future, when appointments are made to tho
posts of non-graduate Anglo-Chinese and Vernacular teachers,
the scale of salary should be 720 - $4,800 per annum, which
scale is equivalent to that paid to the Junior Clerical
establishment of the Government.
33.
The benefits or the present salary scale of $1,800
$6,000, with pension for Anglo-Chinese masters, should be aoxe
widely advertised than hither to. The Commission was informed
that these figures if more widely known would offer an
inducement to graduates to anter Government scrvice ofter
their University course.
34.
PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT FOR LOCAL CHILDREN.
It has come to the notice of the Commissioners that
the parents of a considerable number of Chinese students who