No.75.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following letter with enclosure from the Inspector of Schools, reporting the result of the examination of the Grant-in-Aid Schools, is published for general information.
By Command,
W. H. MARSH,
Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Hongkong, 24th March, 1880.
[No. 21.]
INSPECTORATE OF SCHOOLS,
HONGKONG, 25th February, 1880.
SIR, I have the honour to forward under this enclosure the annual table showing the results of the examinations I conducted under the Grant-in-aid system.
Apart from the Government Schools and Government Aided Schools, 29 in number, the total number of Schools examined by me under the provisions of the Grant-in-aid Schedule last year amounted to 19 as against 17 in 1878 and 14 in 1877. The total number of children presented for examination amounted to 755 as against 557 in 1878 and 459 in 1877. In one School some boys were, for the first time, examined in the subjects of a higher class of education as provided for by Rule No. 22 of the Schedule. The passes in the whole of the subjects included in the Schedule amounted to 86 per cent. as against 95 per cent. in 1878 and 86 per cent. in 1877. The reason of this decrease in the percentage of passes, as compared with the previous year, does not lie in any decrease in the effectiveness of the teaching given in 1879, but is to be found in the fact that at the last examination I increased the strictness of the test applied in Schools under Class I, allowing only one mistake where two mistakes were allowed formerly. In the case of one School a cumulative reduction of five per cent. on the whole earnings had to be made under Rule No. 3 of the Grant-in-aid Schedule.
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三月二十四示
一千八百八十年
册杪印俾衆週知
輔翼義學獎賞單一
公文並内附考取各
督憲論將監督學院
輔政使司馬
照定輔翼義學規條第三款每百員減少五員更有義學一去年三月朔始更嚴卽前准限錯二字者去年只准限錯一字等更有一館去年所領獎賞前年稍遜惟厥故非因去年教法不及前年實因甄別之法去年較前年
名戊寅年被取者九十五名丁丑年被取者八十六名如是去年被取較諸班次創蒙考取致該規條所列各班照每百名學童計去年被取者八十六四百五十九名惟去年所甄別中有一義學照規條第二十二款所定額外
各館應考學童去年有七百五十五名戊寅年有五百五十七名丁丑年有條去年甄別一十九館查戊寅年甄別一十七館丁丑年甄別一十四館致
案除國家義學及國家輔翼義學共二十九館外镞監院遵定輛異義學規
並去年獎賞一册錄呈
監督學院爲申陳事竊做監院現將連年考取獎賞各種與義學情節
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