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Protestant Mission. There are four small Government schools, and grants to the Mission institutions in aid of education are made by the Government. There are as a rule no school fees except in the higher schools at Morija and Masite, &c.
BERMUDA.
There are no Government Schools, no deuomi- national schools, and no free schools. There are about fifty private schools, of which one half are aided by grants from the Colonial Legislature. School fees are charged.
BRITISH GUIANA.
A State-aided system was established in 1870. The schools are denominational except the Estates schools. Each pupil who attends an aided school or a Colonial School* after he has attained the age of twelve years, or has passed the prescribed fourth standard, is required to pay school fees, which are applied for the maintenance of the School.
(Vide sec. 36 Ordinance No. 3 of 1876, Revised Edition 1905.)
BRITISH HONDURAS,
The primary schools are denominational, and, with few exceptions, are inspected and aided by the Colonial Government. Fees are payable but their collection is attended with much difficulty, and the amount collected annually is not large and is decreasing.
In 1905, Government aid amounted to over one-half of the total cost of primary education. CANADA.
Education is compulsory and free schools are provided under the control of the several Pro- vincial Legislatures. In Ontario and Quebec provision is made for separate schools for Roman Catholics; but in the other Provinces the schools are unsectarian. In the North West Territories the Government system rests upon an Ordinance which enacts inter alia, that the minority of the ratepayers in any district, whether Protestant or Roman Catholic, may establish a separate school therein; and in such case the ratepayers establishing such Protestant or l'oman Catholic separate school shall be liable only to assessments of such rates as they impose upon themselves in respect thereof.
In the new Provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan the Government system rests, at present, upon the Ordinances of the North West Territories.
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.
There is a system of Government grants which are given to supplement local contribu- tions. These grants are given to various classes
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of schools, viz. :-undenominational, public, private farm, district boarding, mission, poor, aborigines, and other schools. Special aid is given in necessitous cases towards the education of children at boarding schools. When the children of farmers cannot possibly attend an established public school special grants are given towards the salary of a tutor or governess, and this grant is augmented by a capitation grant.
CEYLON.
The cost of education in the Government schools is borne almost entirely by the Govern- ment. The only item of expenditure from which the central government is relieved is the cost of school buildings. These the village authorities have to provide and maintain as a condition precedent to the establishment of the school.
The Government schools are all unsectarian, and no fee is charged for vernacular education but a small fee is charged for English teaching.
In aided vernacular schools no fee is charged.
There is also a considerable number of unaided vernacular schools, including the purely indi- genous Sinhalese schools attached to Buddhist temples, and the Koran schools.
CYPRUS.
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All the schools are denominational. population of the Island is divided almost exclusively between the Greek Orthodox and the Moslem religions, and the school system is therefore dual. There are two Boards of Education, Christian and Moslem; two Com- mittees in each district; and the school in each village is either Greek-Christian or Moslem. The Mohammedan schools are controlled and paid for by Mohammedan taxpayers, and the Greek Orthodox schools by the Greek Orthodox taxpayers with the help, in both cases, of a Government grant. The onus of maintaining and managing its school is practically thrown on each village; and it is only when the Village Committee fails to perform its duties or when disputes arise that the higher authorities intervene. In 1905-6 three Armenian and three Maronite Schools were also aided by Government, DOMINICA.
(Vide Leeward Islands.)
FALKLAND ISLANDS.
The circumstances of the Colony in regard to education are peculiar ; one half of the children live scattered over the Islands, fifteen of which are inhabited. With the exception of Stanley and Darwin, most families are separated from
· one another by one, two, or three hours' ride.
In Stanley there are two Government schools and a private school carried on by a Roman
• The word "Village" includes "Town."
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