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la cadet appointments with merely a proviso
that it is not necessarily reserved for cadets
should be altered, and it should be made clear
by a public pronouncement that the appointment
is definitely an Education Department appointment
which need not necessarily be given to Education
officers, but will be given outside the Depart-
ment only if no suitable person is available
within it. Unless this change of emphasis is
secured, and unless the Education Department know
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that the emphasis has changed, there will always
be a tendency on the part of the officers with
10 or more years service to be content with
routine work. They will not try to qualify
themselves for a Director's post by distinctive
work, by study leave or by Chinese studies if
they know that in fact cadets will always be
given preference. This is certainly the pre-
vailing impression at present, whatever the
Governor' may say in his despatches.
11.
that in
The Government should also anounce
selection for the post special atten-
tion will be paid to proficiency in Chinese and
acquaintance with Chinese thought and life. If
the existing departmental regulations provide
for courses of Chinese study and testing of the
results at various stages for educational
officers these regulations should be more
strictly enforced a seems, on the Governor's
admission to have been the case hitherto and if
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they do not so provide they should be amended.
Arrangements should also be made for necessary
tuition. From every point of view and not
merely with reference to this particular
question it is most desirable that familiarity