8. There were 1,071 schools in 1934 and the number of pupils in attendance was 73,348 as compared with 72,917 in 1933.
9. Of the 1,066 schools controlled by the Education Department in 1934 twenty were provided schools. The cost of their equipment and maintenance is a charge on the colonial revenues and, except for a few temporary appointments, the teachers are civil servants on the permanent establishment of the Colony.
10. Of the 1,051 unprovided schools 334 are partly dependent on assistance from public funds. The remaining 717 unprovided schools are subject to registration and inspection by the Education Department but receive no financial assistance from funds at the disposal of the Director of Education.
There are five uncontrolled schools.
PROVIDED SCHOOLS.
11. 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, seventeen in number (including the Technical Institute and Junior Technical School), are known as English Secondary schools; the latter, of which there are three, as Vernacular schools.
12. Of the four English schools, classed as Secondary schools in Table II, two are for boys and one is for girls. These three schools have primary departments. The fourth, the Central British School, which admits boys and girls, has no primary department.
13. Of the eleven English schools, classed as primary schools in Table II, three admit boys and girls preparing for the Central British School.
14. 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.
15. In those English schools which are attended by Chinese the study of English and Chinese is carried on side by side, the pari passu system requiring that promotion shall depend on proficiency in both languages.
16. Of the three provided vernacular schools one has a seven years course and includes a Normal department. There is also a Normal school for women teachers. A Normal school at Taipo aims at providing vernacular teachers for rural schools.
17. The Technical Institute, classed in Table II as "vocational," is attended by persons desirous of receiving instruction for the most part germane to their daytime occupations.