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Annexe B.
REPORT BY THE DIRECTOR OF THE TECHNICAL INSTITUTE, 1924.
(Table IX).
The Institute was open as usual during eight months of the year.
The number of students in attendance during the Session ending June 30th, was 597 against 526 in 1923.
In June and for Teachers'. Classes in December-Examina- tions were conducted as
conducted as in previous years by independent examiners, 185 Students were examined; of these, 82 passed in one subject, and 10 in two subjects; a total of 102 students or 55% passed. The low percentage of passes is due to the high standard required throughout, but particularly in the Teachers' Classes, where it is being raised steadily year by year. Gratify- ing reports continue to be received of the good work done in various schools of the Colony by Teachers who have been trained in these Classes, and notably in the Gap Road English School where all Members of the Staff, including the Head Master, were trained at the Technical Institute Teachers' Classes. At the December examination, of 36 Teachers examined in the "English" Classes, 25 passed; in the "Chinese" Classes, 68 Teachers were examined and only 17 passed. Final "Teachers' Certificates" were gained by 5 Men and 4 Women in the "English" Teachers' Classes and by 4 Women in the "Chinese" Teachers' Classes.
Subjects taught during the Session included Building Construction, Machine Drawing, Electrical Engineering, Mechanics, Mathematics, Chemistry (Practical and Theoretical), Physics, French, Commercial English, Shorthand and Book- keeping in the Teachers' Classes the subjects include Psychology, School Management, Practical Teaching, English Literature, Reading and Recitation.
E. RALPHS,
Director. Technical Institute.