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PAVEDI
1.1938
1.0.0 REG
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONG KONG,
8th June, 1938.
Sir,
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I have the honour to refer to Mr. Ormsby-Gore's
confidential despatch of the 5th of November, 1937,
transmitting a copy of a report by a Sub-Committee of the
Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies regarding
the secondary education policy in this Colony. In this
connection I would invite your attention to my despatch
No.218 of the 15th of March, 1938, in reply to your circular despatch of the 14th of December, 1937, regarding
the Secondary School Certificate Examinations and the
Teaching of English in Secondary Schools in the Dependencies.
I take it that the comments of the Advisory
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Committee on the nature and content of the Secondary School
Course are to be read in conjunction with the remarks in
the memorandum which accompanied your circular despatch,
to which reference is made above, on the ideal curriculum
for secondary schools overseas. Particular reference is made
to the advisability of including in the course, in addition
to the other subjects, about which there is general agreement,
such subjects as manual training, music, training in the
arts and crafts, hygiene, physical training, local civics
and geography and history.
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I asked the Director of Education, to put to
the Board of Education for an expression of its views the
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
MALCOLM MACDONALD, M.P.,
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