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time the actual grant paid might no longer bear any real relation to need, and if the focs were increased could be more than was really needed. This is the case at present with some of the Anglican Schools which have large unspent balances.
Under the present Code Grant School Managers in making appointments to teaching staff must give preference to Northcote Training College and Hong Kong University graduates. This is thought desirable because
(1) Hong Kong public funds should be used in. the first
instance to support Hong Kong trained and
educatod teachers.
(ii) Teachers from China have not in general the desirable contact with English educational methoda and culture, and are likely to have a predominantly Chinese rather than Hong Kong outlook, and will probably consider allegiance to China before allegiance to Hong Kong.
(iii) Appointment of teachers from China whose
antecedents cannot be easily checked makeS it casier for infiltration of undesirable political elements, and apart from this the general standards of discipline and activities allowed in many schools and universities in China leave much to be desired.
If under a Block Grant System freedom from control was also given, School Managers would be free to appoint as many teachers as they wished from China, and they would not be likely to view the matter from the same point of view as this Government that is with a view to the noods and advantages of Hong Long as a whole but rather from the limited point of view of the staffing needs of their own school.
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The eleven points given above indicate that the principle of freedom which Bishop Hall socks is fundamentally inconsistent with the provisions of the present Code and could not be made consistent without completely changing it.
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