Appointment of Senior Inspector of English
Schools, Hong Kong.
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The Committee will remember that in M. Burney's
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report on education in Hong Kong he included a
recommendation that the vacant post of Senior Inspector of
English Schools should be filled by the best possible
candidate obtainable from outside the Colony, and that this
officer should be made Director of Education as soon as he
had had time to appreciate the local situation.
This recommendation was accepted by the Colonial
Government and efforts were made with the help of the Board
of Education to obtain a candidate in this country who was
not only qualified for the particular duties of the vacant
post but had also the personality and general qualities which
would be required of a potential Director of Education in a
Colony which has some specially difficult problems in the
sphere of Education. No fully satisfactory candidate has
however been forthcoming from home, but a Senior Education
officer in Malaya, Mr. C.G. Sollis, has been selected for
the vacancy and has now taken up duty in Hong Kong.
Mr. Sollis is 42 years old was educated at Bristol
Grammar School and St. John's College, Oxford, where he won
a Classical Exhibition in 1915; he served in the Royal Navy
from 1915 to 1919 and then went up to Oxford for a shortened
obtaining a 1st class in classical Moderations;
took his M.A. degree in 1931. He has served in the Melayan
Education Department since 1920 first as a Master and for the
last 10 or more years as an Inspector of 3chools. He has
course
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been considerably well reported on by previous Directors of
Education and Governors in Malaya.