14 In view of the primary importance of providing an adequate number of the right type of suitably trained teachers we would emphasiso the need not only for the revival of pre-war facilities for training teachers but also for their expansion to meet the increased necds and opportunities of the future.
We make, therefore, the following detailed recommendation in this respect.
HONG KONG
(1) The Northcote training college for teachers should be
re-established as soon as possible.
(II)
(I)
(II)
A hostol should be provided at which all students at the college should be expected to reside. We realise that there may be economic factors which may tend to provont the realisation of this aim but we attach so much importance to it that we recommend that the cost of living at the hostel should be kept to a minimum, if necessary by Government subsidy.
The possibility of providing teachers for work. in China should be kept in view and to that end we recommend that efforts should be made to secure the recognition by the Chinese Ministry of Education of the certificate granted to teachers trained at the orthcote college, particularly on the vernacular side.
The number of training centres for teachers in the rural districts of the New Territories should be increased and the curricula at such centres should be closely related to the requirements of an agricultural community.
MALAYA
The training of teachers at Raffles College should be re-organised so as to introduce facilities for teaching in Malay, landarin and Tamil with the object of
(a) providing a supply of men and women
suitably trained to become members of the staffs of training colleges for teachers for vernacular schools;
(b) providing fully qualified teachers for the teaching of the Vornaculars in certain secondary schools in which would be encouraged the study of the literature and culture of the principal vernaculars by those who wish for and can profit by such instruction;
(c) enabling, as soon as possible, students at
English secondary schools to take their own language as one of their principal subjects.
For the training of teachers for the primary vernacular schools, the initial action required will be:
(1) The re-establishment of
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