and Medicine.
3
English
1
dominated the Arts group of
studies among which the only others of real importance were
in Ecomonies and Politics, and later in Chinoso, whorein
local Chinese began to be interested and furnished buildings,
and an excellent Chinese Library. Studies in a course for the
training of teachers were integrated with other studies in the
Arts and Science Groups, not very satisfactorily and on the
whole the progress in the training of teachers was ineffective.
This was in largo part due to the policy of the Covomment in
the Educational Department till relatively recently under
which Government High Schools were staffed very largely by men,
and women recruited in England. A small and slowly growing
number of trained
graduates was employed, but on
scales of pay that were inadequate and with little chance of
substantial promotion. Of Inter years, the success or a
number of locally educated and trained teachers in aided
schools, especially, has lowered, if not yet entirely removed
the bariors orcoted against Chinese entrants to the profession.
Alded and Missionary schools depended for almost all their
senkor staff on foreign missionaries, but they did
a much higher proportion of local trained teachers.
5 TA special. Faculty of Science was set up in 1338, and new
1938,
and
employ
laboratories for Chemistry, Physics, Botany, Zoology with a
small provision for Geology were erected in 1940-1.
They had
been in use only for a few months when the Japanese attack came.
Experience from 1938 justified a hope that more adequately pro-
vidad