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$15.50 or $1.30 a month. This method of calculation differs from that employed in my last annual report; but the result given there ($1.25) is close enough to make me feel sure that this figure is not wide of the mark.
## REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE
(Tables IV & V)
6a. The total expenditure on education was $225,606 ($219,359 in 1909). This represents 3.40 per cent of the Total Revenue of the Colony excluding land sales, (3.48 in 1909, and 3.41 in 1908). The net cost of the Government Schools for each unit of average attendance is $38.16 ($30.52 in 1909, Table I). The increased cost is due to the smaller numbers and additional Staff at Queen's College.
## GENERAL STATISTICS
(Table VII)
6b. This is a new return. It shows the numbers in each Class of each of the more important English Schools, and affords some indication of the number of undergraduates which each may be expected to send to the University.
## COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION
7. The Retrenchment Committee of 1909 recommended the raising of the rate of fees in certain Government Schools. This proposal met with some opposition from the leaders of Chinese opinion, who held that education in English, even if not of the most efficient type, should at all events be cheap. There were besides several other points of policy ripe for settlement. Accordingly His Excellency the Governor appointed a Committee consisting of the Right Reverend the Bishop of Victoria, Hon. Mr. A. W. Brewin, Reverend Father De Maria, Mr. Lau Chu-pak, Mr. T. K. Dealy, with myself as Chairman, to consider and report upon them. The report has been printed and published; and it is not therefore necessary to do more than recall very briefly the most important of its recommendations, all of which were adopted by the Government.
8. Recommendations of the Committee.-The Committee recommended that the Staffs of Schools should be kept up to a certain minimum standard in the following way :-
(a.) In no case should more than forty pupils be enrolled in a Class taught by only one Master.
(b.) In the Remove and Upper Divisions of Schools, that is, the Classes representing the 4th to the 8th year of a pupil's education, the Staff should consist of English and "Third Year" Masters (as defined below) in the proportion of not less than two to five. Lower Classes might be adequately taught by "Second Year" Masters.
9. The valuable work done by the Normal Classes for local Teachers at Queen's College and at the Technical Institute was recognised. As seen above, "Third Year" Masters (i.e., Masters who
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$15.50 or $1.30 a month. This method of calculation differs from that employed in my last annual report; but the result given there ($1.25) is close enough to make me feel sure that this figure is not wide of the mark.
REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE.
(Tables IV & V.)
6a. The total expenditure on education was $225,606 ($219,359 in 1909). This represents 3'40 per cent of the Total Revenue of the Colony excluding land sales, (348 in 1909, and 3'41 in 1908). The net cost of the Government Schools for each unit of average attendance is $38.16 ($30.52 in 1909, Table I). The increased cost is due to the smaller numbers and additional Staff at Queen's College.
GENERAL STATISTICS.
(Table VII.)
6b. This is a new return. It shews the numbers in each Class of each of the more important English Schools, and affords some indication of the number of undergraduates which each may be ex- pected to send to the University.
COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION.
7. The Retrenchment Committee of 1909 recommended the raising of the rate of fees in certain Government Schools. This proposal met with some opposition from the leaders of Chinese opinion, who held that education in English, even if not of the most efficient type, should at all events be cheap. There were besides several other points of policy ripe for settlement. Accordingly His Excellency the Governor appointed a Committee consisting of the Right Reverend the Bishop of Victoria, Hon. Mr. A. W Brewin, Reverend Father De Maria, Mr. Lau Chu-pak, Mr. T. K. Dealy, with myself as Chairman, to consider and report upon them. The report has been printed and published; and it is not therefore necessary to do more than recall very briefly the most important of its recom- mendations, all of which were adopted by the Government.
8. Recommendations of the Committee.-The Committee recom- mended that the Staffs of Schools should be kept up to a certain minimum standard in the following way :-
(a.) In no case should more than forty pupils be enrolled in a Class taught by only one Master.
(b.) In the Remove and Upper Divisions of Schools, that is, the Classes representing the 4th to the 8th year of a pupil's education, the Staff should consist of English and "Third Year" Masters (as defined below) in the proportion of not less than two to five. Lower Classes might be adequately taught by "Second Year
"Second Year" Masters.
9. The valuable work done by the Normal Classes for local Teachers at Queen's College and at the Technical Institute was re- cognised. As seen above, "Third Year" Masters (i.e., Masters who
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