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parent when, on leaving school, he comes out into the open to compete for employment with those who have stayed on in institutions where standard is regarded as more important than numbers or fees.
AIDED SCHOOLS—MUNSANG College.
69. The Munsang College, Kowloon City, has been added to the list of schools receiving financial assistance from public funds. A grant of $6,000 was made in 1931. This grant will be reviewed annually in the light of the facilities provided for Anglo-Chinese education in the district and is conditional on the college being conducted to the satisfaction of the Director of Education.
AIDED SCHOOLS—VERNACULAR.
70. In 1931 these numbered exactly 300, of which four were Grant in Aid schools for girls classed in Table II as "secondary" schools.
71. St. Paul's College for Girls is to be congratulated on their move to more adequate premises in Macdonnell Road.
72. It was found possible to increase the capitation grants payable in respect of these four schools in 1931 by $1, and it is hoped that the new rate will be further increased when circumstances permit, as the increase from $11 to $12 has not overtaken the increase in the cost of living which has come to pass since the original adoption of the $11 rate.
Maximum rates tend to become minimum rates as one is reluctant to mark defects revealed by inspectors by reducing grants where this involves recourse to the services of teachers whose qualifications are such that they are willing to accept emoluments which correspond rather with the financial resources of schools than with the standard that is desirable in the case of publicly aided institutions.
UNAIDED SCHOOLS.
73. Statistics of these schools will be found in Inspectors' reports and Tables I and II.
74. The English schools show a drop from 127 to 120, and as these institutions are of small cultural value, it is not to be regretted.
75. It is hoped that more of the private schools for teaching English will avail themselves of the examination to which I have referred in paragraph 48, and not continue to maintain for upper classes staff, which would be better employed with a larger number of boys doing elementary work, than in preparing a handful of candidates for local examinations.