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# Chapter IX.
# EDUCATION AND WELFARE INSTITUTIONS
## Government Schools
These are either schools where the medium of instruction is English or mostly English or schools where the medium of instruction is Chinese. The former, sixteen in number, are known as "English" schools, the latter of which there are three as "Vernacular schools."
2. Of the four English schools, classed as "secondary" schools in the Table below, two are Anglo-Chinese schools for boys and one is for girls. These three schools have primary departments. The fourth school, the Central British School which is a mixed school, has no primary department. Of the twelve English schools, classed as "primary" schools in the Table below, four are mixed schools preparing for the Central British School. In this group are also four "District" schools, including one for Indian boys and four "Lower Grade" schools, three of which are in rural districts. In those English schools which are attended by Chinese the study of English and of Chinese is carried on side by side; the pari passu system requiring that promotion shall depend on proficiency in both languages.
3. Of the three Government Vernacular schools one has a seven years course and includes a Normal department. There is also a Normal school for women teachers and a Normal school on the mainland which aims at providing Vernacular teachers for rural schools.
4. The Technical Institute, classed in the Table below as "vocational", is attended by persons desirous of receiving instruction for the most part germane to their daytime occupations.
## Grant in Aid and Subsidized Schools
5. There are twelve Grant-in-Aid English Schools, and four Grant-in-Aid Vernacular Schools. Of the former, six are schools for boys and six are for girls.
6. One English school for boys and one for girls have primary departments only. The remaining ten, classed in the Table below as "secondary" schools, have primary departments as well as the upper classes.
7. The Vernacular Grant-in-Aid Schools are schools for girls and are classed in the Table as "secondary" schools.
8. The 296 subsidized schools are all Vernacular schools.