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which are the most expensive elements, might be provided by the B.B.O.

Broadcasts in the Second and Successive Years.

78. It should be possible to add additional serics after the first year if every opportunity is taken of repetition. So far as possible also the services for Vernacular and Anglo-Chinese schools should feed each other, subjects being chosen for broadcasts which might serve both types of school. I strongly re- commend, however, that the staff do not undertake more than can be properly handled, and properly checked up on in the classroom. Broadcasts which are good enough to repeat are what is wanted.

79.

In a Colony the number of experts available for contributing to schools broadcasts either by way of scripts or scriptwriting or collaboration with a script-writer is limited, and the personnel themselves are continually either coming or going. It is necessary therefore to make use of one's expert while one has him; postpone to the next year and one may find him replaced by another man equally expert but not so suited to one's purpose. The caution I have continually stressed must be mixed with an element of opportunism.

Advisory Committees.

80. The advice of teachers, subject specialists and others is required for the following purposes:

(i) the formulation of policy, especially as to which subjects

are to be broadcast, and at what level;

(ii) the examination of detailed programme plans;

(iii) the criticism of actual broadcasts.

81. In general it is true that a committee suitable for (i) is not at all suitable for (ii) and (iii); and also, clearly, a committee which is best qualified to advise on Anglo-Chinese schools is not that which is best qualified to advise on Vernacular schools.

82.

Although it may appear to involve an over formidable array of

committees, I recommend that:

(i) two sub-committees of the Broadcasting Advisory Committee should be set up to advise respectively on the service to nglo-Chinese and Vernacular Schools, the members of which should retire annually, but be subject to re- appointment. Each committee should sit under the chair- manship of the Director of Education, or his deputy, with the School Broadcasting Organiser as Secretary, and consist of six teachers and not more than three other persons whose advice is likely to be helpful; at least one should be a senior member of the University.

(ii) ad hoc meetings of classroom teachers (Note - not principals)

should be summoned as required to examine the detail of programme plans and criticise past broadcasts. The chairman might appropriately be the Director of Education or his deputy, but it is desirable that otherwise the committee should consist wholly of persons actually using the broadcasts in their own teaching, and using them with the classes for which the broadcasts are intended. If other persons are included in these meetings, the only result will be uncertainty as to how much importance is to be attached to the opinions expressed.

Reports from Listening Schools.

83.

For each series half-a-dozen schools should be asked to send the School Broadcasting Organiser reports on each broadcast as soon as it is over.

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