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MEMORANDUM by the PRESIDENT of the EDECAtion Board.
1. The despatch of the Secretary of State for the Colonies raises three questions, namely:-
(1.) The adoption of a rule similar to that passed by the Government of the
Straits Settlements;
(2.) The necessity for increasing the value of the scholarship by grant from the
relatives or friends of the scholar; and
(3.) How far has the scholarship system proved beneficial to the scholars them-
selves and to the Colony.
2. Question (1.) The Straits Settlements' rule provides in effect that the scholar should; as a condition precedent to the receipt from the Crown Agents of the quarterly allowance, produce a certificate of good conduct and efficiency; and that a certificate other than excellent will, according to its nature, involve a penalty varying from a fine to forfeiture of the scholarship. The Board of Education, to whom the despatch has been referred, are of opinion that the adoption of the Straits Settlements' rule is neither necessary nor desirable, so far as the Barbados Scholarship is concerned. The regulations for that scholarship provide- The Barbados scholar will be required, as a condition of holding his scholarship, as soon as possible after his election, to enter and commence residence in some College or Hall of the Universities of Oxford or Cambridge, and there to keep his terms continuously by residence, till his scholarship expires, unless he be dispensed in the University by the Board." (Rule 6.)
"A certificate inust be transmitted by the scholar to the Secretary of the Board three times a year, at the close of each term, signed by the head of the College or Hall of which he is a member, and by his college tutor, to the following effect :—
"This is to certify that N. has kept
term by residence, that his conduct bas been satisfactory, and that we are satisfied that he is diligently reading for honours in one of the schools recognised by the University.
A. B., MASTER. C. D., TUTOR.
"Should the scholar fail to transmit this certificate at the close of any term (unless dispensed from residence for that term by the Board) his scholarship will remain sus pended until such certificate is received. If, however, the terminal certificate be a second time withheld, the scholarship will be absolutely forfeited." (Rules 7 & 8.)
These regulations have been in force since 1880, and have been regularly observed. On the 25th August, 1881, when the first Bardados scholar was about to proceed to England, the Crown Agents were instructed to pay the annual value of the scholarship, 175, in quarterly sums of £43 15s,, on production of the certificate above referrel tó ; and similar instructions have been issued with respect to each successive scholar. certificate and scholar's receipt are sent by the Crown Agents to Barbados as vouchers for the payment.
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"Not only do the existing regulations make ample provision for securing good conduct and diligence, but, as a matter of fact, no Barbadian scholar, so far as the Board of Elucation know, has ever failed to obtain from his principal and tutor the necessary certificate of good conduct and diligence.
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The Board further think, with Mr. Deighton, the Head Master of Harrison College. that "The reducing the amount of a scholarship in case the certificate of the holder is not excellent, as is done by the Straits Settlements Government, seems to be inconsistent with paragraph three of the despatch."
3. Question 2. On this point the Board desire to refer to paragraph two of Mr Deighton's memorandum
4. Question 3. A list of Barbados scholars is sent herewith. The return, in the opinion of the Board, establishes that the Barbados Scholarship has proved beneficial both to the scholars and to the Colony.
W. HERBERT GREAVES,
President of Board of Education,
September 28, 1897.
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(No. C/A 105,) GENTLEMEN.
Colonial Secretary's Office, August 25, 1881. Tuis letter will be handed to you by Mr. Joseph Allan Jackman, holder of the Barbados scholarship, under the 67th section of the Barbados Education Act, 1878.
Subject to the production of a satisfactory certificate from the Tutor of Pembroke College, similar to the enclosed, Mr. Jackman will be entitled to receive the sum of £43 15s. quarterly for 34 years, the first quarterly payment being due on 1st July, 1881.
As there is no term at Oxford between 1st July and 1st October, the certificate granted by the Tutor at the College at the close of Trinity term in each year will entitle Mr. Jackman to the quarterly payment due on 1st October, as well as that due on 1st July. I am to request you to be so good as to pay to Mr. Jackman the sum of £43 15s. quarterly, commencing from 1st July, 1881, the last payment to be due on 1st January, 1885, subject to the production of the necessary certificate.
I have, &c.,
WALTER HELY-HUTCHINSON,
Colonial Secretary.
The Crown Agents for the Colonies.
Downing Street, London.
MEMORANDUM BY MR. DEIGHTON,
1.-(2.) The reducing the amount of a scholarship in case the certificate of the holder is not excellent, as is done by the Straits Settlements' Government, seems to me incon- sistent with section 3 of the despatch. I should prefer the following rule-If the holder of a scholarship fails to get an excellent certificate, then on the first occasion he should be warned, on the second occasion he should forfeit his scholarship. These conditions would, of course, be explained whenever the scholarship is awarded.
2.-(3.) We have a right to expect that the winner of the Barbados scholarship will win a scholarship at his college at Oxford or Cambridge, and in nearly every instance this has been the case. Any one holding the two scholarships has quite as much money as is either necessary or desirable.
3.-(4.) If a list of the Barbados scholars, and also the Gilchrist scholars-since the Gilchrist was supplemented by a Government Grant of £100 a year, with the successes gained by each, were sent to Mr. Chamberlain, I think he would come to the conclusion that the Barbados scholarship system has proved beneficial to the holders of the scholarships and consequently to the Colony. It has undoubtedly raised the standard of education here immensely.
H. DEIGHTON, Head Master of Harrison College.
LIST OF BARBADOS SCHOLARS FROM THE DATE OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE SCHOLARSHIP TO THE PRESENT TIME.
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Died
1880.-J. A. Jackman: 2nd Class in Class. Mod.; 3rd Class in Class. Greats.
as Assistant Master at Harrison College, Barbados. 1881.-F. B. Moore: Died in 1893 as Inspector of Schools in the Island of St. Lucia,
West Indies. 1882.-S. Greenidge: 24th Wrangler and 2nd Class in Law Tripos. McMahon. Scholar (£200 a year for six years). Practised as a Barrister-at-law in Barbados for a short time. Died in 1890.
1883.-J. W. Hawkins: 1st Class in Science Tripos. At present a Doctor of Medicine
in Barbados.
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1884.-A. H. Greenidge: 1st Class in Classical Mods.; 1st Class in Class, Greats. At
present Tutor of Hertford College, Oxford. 1885.-C. Spencer 1st Class in Math. Mods.; 2nd Class in Math. Greats. 1886.-D. Emplage: 1st Class in Math. Mods.; 2nd Class in Math. Greats.
present Assistant Master at Harrison College, Barbados. 1887.-C. G. Gooding : M.B., Cambridge. Was Junior Resident Surgeon at the General
Hospital up to 17th September, 1897.
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1888.-J. Sanderson: 2nd Class Math. Mods.; 3rd Class Math. Greats.
Assistant Master at a School in England. 1889.-W. Shepherd: M.B., Cambridge. Practising at present in England. 1890.-J. H. Darrell: 24th Wrangler. At present Head Master of a College in Ceylon. 1891.-E. L. Talma: 14th Wrangler and 2nd Class in Moral Science.
At present Assistant Emigration Agent at Penang. 1892.-F. G. Bowen: Scholarship expired 30th September, 1896. Failed to take Honours in his Science Examination. Is at present studying medicine at London. 1893.-G. C. Deane: 3rd Class in Jurisprudence, Oxford. Scholarship will expire on
30th September, 1897.
1894.--R. M. Davis: 1st Senior Optime. Still at Cambridge, studying for some other
tripos, Scholarship will expire on 30th September, 1898. 1895.-F: W. Reeves: At Cambridge. Degree not yet taken. 1896.-T. Garraway: At Oxford.
1897.-T. W. Roberts: Proceeded to England by last mail. Will be in residence last
term at Oxford.
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JAMAICA.
No. 4.
GOVERNOR SIR H. A. BLAKE to MR. CHAMBERLAIN.
(Received October 27, 1897.)
(No.. 409.) SIR,
King's House, Jamaica, October 4, 1897. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, No. 239, of the 19th August last,* asking for an expression of my views, as regards this Colony, on certain modifications which it has been suggested should be made in the conditions on which scholarships are awarded in the Colonies to enable the holders to complete their education in Europe.
(2) I consider it advisable to obtain in the first place the views of the Board of Education on these suggestions, and they will be placed before them at their next meeting, to be held this month.
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(4) I append a memorandum by the Inspector of Schools on the careers of past Queen's scholars, so far as they can be ascertained. It is not a brilliant record, but when the antecedents of the boys, and the fact that in the great majority of cases the language they have studied in is not their mother tongue, are considered, I do not think that the result can be regarded as very unsatisfactory.
I have, &c.,
Enclosure in No. 5.
C. B. H. MITCHELL.
MEMORANDUM BY THE INSPECTOR OF SCHOOLS.
October 9, 1897.
I THINK on the whole our Queen's scholars have done very satisfactorily. All have succeeded in gaining a degree or qualifying for a profession, most of them very creditably, and one or two brilliantly.
(2) Of past Queen's scholars we have now two lawyers in Singapore, Messrs. Aitken and Ong Siang, two doctors in Singapore, Honourable Lim Boon Keng and Dr. de Souza, and one doctor in Penang, Dr. Locke; two engineers in the Native States. Messrs. Angus and Aeria, and one qualified engineer, Mr. Scott, who is Building Inspector under the Singapore Municipality, and one schoolmaster, Mr. C. Phillips, who took a degree at Cambridge and is a master at the Raffles Institution.
(3) One scholar, Meherjee, who gained his scholarship in 1890, has not yet returned to the Colony, and I cannot say what has become of him.
(4) The other scholars now studying at home are all, I believe, doing well.
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JAMAICA.
No. 6.
J. B. ELCUM.
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I have, &c.,
HENRY A. BLAKE,
Governor.
STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.
No. 5.
GOVERNOR SIR C. B. H. MITCHELL to MR. CHAMBERLAIN.
(No 347.)
SIR,
(Received November 10, 1897.)
Government House, Singapore, October 19, 1897.
In reply to your despatch, No. 237, of the 19th August, 1897, I have the honour to report that the arrangements for working the system of Government scholarships awardej -- by this Colony are fairly satisfactory.
(2) They are awarded at present on condition that the recipient enters a university where residence under discipline is the rule, thus practically confining his choice to Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin.
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that with a bare allowance of £200 a year, the financial position of these students must, in any case, be a difficult one, and may become a source of actual danger in individual cases, But this condition equally applies to poor students in every place and of every race. I understand that in the past the students who have gone from the Straits Settlements have been to some small extent assisted by their relatives.
I am not prepared to recommend any alteration or increase in the amount paid to students who win scholarships from this Colony. They receive very careful advice from the Education Department, and I think it only reasonable that they, equally with other young men, should be expected to exercise self-control or to take the consequences.
• No. 1.
GOVERNOR SIR H. A. BLAKE to MR. CHAMBERLAIN.
(Received December 9, 1897.)
(No. 476.)
King's House, Jamaica, November 20, 1897.
SIR,
Is continuation of my despatch, No. 409, of the 4th ultimo,;I have the honour to forward to you copy of a report by the Board of Education stating, in connection with your despatch, No. 239, of the 19th August last, their views in regard to the terms and conditions on which the Jamaica Scholarship of £200 a year should be heldt.
(2) I concur in the views of the Board of Education, and propose to authorise an advance of £30 being made in future, before the scholar leaves for England, in cases where it appears to be required; the advance to be repaid by annual deductions of £10 from the scholarship.
Enclosure in No. 6.
I have, &c..
HENRY A. BLAKE,
Governor.
THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOArd of EducatION to THE COLONIAL SECRETARY.
Board of Education Office, Jamaica, November 15, 1897.
SIR,
The Board of Education, at a special meeting held for the purpose, has given careful consideration to the questions raised by the Secretary of State's despatch, No. 239, referred to the Board by the Governor, on the conditions, under which scholar- ships are given by various Colonial Governments, enabling the holders to complete their education in Europe. The Board considers that the thanks of the Colony are due to the Secretary of State for the thoughtful interest he has shown in the welfare of students from the Colonies,
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