# IX.-Education
The total numbers of pupils at schools in the Colony, excluding the Police School, are:-
English Schools Vernacular Schools Total Government Schools 4,172 456 4,628 Military Schools 244 244 Excluded Private School 125 125 Grant Schools 4,738 911 5,649 Vernacular Schools, Urban District 39,152 39,152 Vernacular Schools, Rural District 4,849 4,849 Private English Schools 6,748 6,748 Technical Institute 798 798 Total 16,825 45,368 62,193The chief Government Schools are: Queen's College, King's College, and three District Schools for Chinese boys, the Belilios Public School for Chinese girls, the Vernacular Middle School and two Vernacular Normal Schools, and the Ellis Kadoorie School for Indians.
The Central British School and Kowloon Junior, Victoria, and Quarry Bay Schools for children of British parentage have an average attendance of 320. There is also a school for children of the Fenk District with an average attendance of 48.
There are six Grant-in-Aid Anglo-Chinese Schools for boys and six for girls, and four Grant-in-Aid Vernacular Schools for girls.
The Hong Kong Technical Institute affords an opportunity for high education of students who have left school. Instruction was given in 1930 in Building Construction, Field Surveying, Chemistry (Practical), Metallurgy, Physics, Electricity, English, Shorthand, Physical Instruction and Seamanship. Classes for men and women teachers, both "English" and "Vernacular" are a feature of the Institute.
The lecturers are recruited from members of the medical and educational professions in the Colony, and from the Department of Public Works, and receive fees for their services. The Institute is furnished with a well-equipped chemical laboratory and excellent physical apparatus.