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Annexe B.
REPORT BY THE DIRECTOR OF THE TECHNICAL INSTITUTE, 1927.
(Table VIII.)
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 620 against 460 in 1926.
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In June—and for Teachers' Classes in December—Examinations were conducted as in previous years by independent examiners. 245 Students were examined (173 in 1926); of these, a total of 128 students or 52% passed (71, or 41% in 1926). remarked in my last Report the low percentage of passes is due to the high standard required throughout, but particularly in the Teachers' Classes, where it has again been raised. Gratifying reports continue to be received of the good work done in various Schools of the Colony by Teachers—Men and Women, English and Vernacular—who have been trained in these Classes. At the December examination, of 37 Teachers examined in the "English" Teachers' Classes, 22 passed; in the "Vernacular” Classes 112 Teachers were examined and 39 passed. Final "Teachers' Certificates" were gained by 6 men and 3 women in the "English" Teachers' Classes and, by 4 women in the "Vernacular" Teachers' Classes. Hygiene is now a compulsory subject in the "English" Teachers' Course. Cookery has become a popular subject.
E. RALPHS,