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have taken the certificate for the full three years' course) and Masters are regarded as possessing special qualifications to teach.
Untrained Masters are no longer recognised.
"Second Year"
10. The Committee met the presumed demand for cheaper education by recommending the establishment of the three new Lower Grade District Schools (paragraph 32).
11. The Committee recommended the following changes in nomenclature:
(a) For the expressions Anglo-Chinese, Anglo-Indian, Anglo-Portuguese Schools, there is substituted the expression English School (meaning schools where English is the medium of instruction) followed if necessary by words of amplification, e.g., English School for Indians. The Kowloon and Victoria Schools are still called British Schools.
(b) For the expression Anglo-Chinese Master is substituted the expression Chinese Master. A Chinese employed in teaching the Chinese written language is a Vernacular Master.
(c) Classes in which the Chinese written language is taught are called Vernacular Classes, or collectively, the Vernacular Side; and the expressions English Classes and English Side are similarly employed. A Vernacular School connotes one where Chinese is the sole medium of instruction.
(d) The term Standard is confined to Vernacular Schools. Standard I is the lowest. Roman numerals are used to designate Standards. In English Schools the lowest Class (English or Vernacular) is Class 8. Arabic numerals are used to designate the Classes. Vernacular Classes in English Schools are prefixed by a capital V. Thus V Class 5 means the fourth Vernacular Class counting from the bottom.
(e) The term Lower Grade Schools means schools intended to give a three years' course of instruction only. The three lowest Classes of an Upper Grade School are called the Lower Classes (8 to 6). The next two are called the Remove Classes or the Remove (5 and 4) and the remainder are called the Upper Classes.
(f) If it is necessary by reason either of great numbers or of differentiation of studies among boys of equal standing to sub-divide a Class, the sub-divisions are distinguished by capital letters, and called the A, B,... Divisions.
(g) If it is desired to promote pupils half yearly instead of yearly, Classes may be divided into Upper and Lower Halves, e.g., Upper Fourth (4 i), Vernacular Lower Third (V 3 ii).
11a. They also made a number of suggestions for the amendment of the Grant Code.
NEW GRANT CODE.
12. The recommendations of the Committee, in so far as they affected the Grant Schools, were, after the adoption of the Committee's report, referred to the Managers of Grant Schools, or "Correspondents", as they are now called. Several amendments were pro-
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have taken the certificate for the full three years' course) and Masters are regarded as possessing special qualifi-
Untrained Masters are no longer recognised.
"Second Year" cations to teach.
10. The Committee met the presumed demand for cheaper education by recommending the establishment of the three new Lower Grade District Schools (paragraph 32).
11. The Committee recommended the following changes in nomenclature:-
(a.) For the expressions Anglo-Chinese, Anglo-Indian, Anglo- Portuguese Schools, there is substituted the expression English School (mean schools where English is the medium of instruction) followed if necessary by words of amplification, e.g., English School for Indians. The Kowloon and Victoria Schools are still called British Schools.
(b.) For the expression Anglo-Chinese Master is substituted the expression Chinese Master. A Chinese employed in teaching the Chinese written language is a Vernacular Master.
(c.) Classes in which the Chinese written language is taught are called Vernacular Classes, or collectivelly, the Vernacular Side; and the expressions English Classes and English Side are similarly employed. A Vernacular School connotes one where Chinese is the sole medium of instruction.
(d) The term Standard is confined to Vernacular Schools. Standard I is the lowest. Roman numerals are used to designate Standards. In English Schools the lowest Class (English or Verna- cular) is Class 8. Arabic numerals are used to designate the Classes. Vernacular Classes in English Schools are prefixed by a capital V. Thus V Class 5 means the fourth Vernacular Class counting from the bottom.
(e.) The term Lower Grade Schools means schools intended to give a three years' course of instruction only. The three lowest Classes of an Upper Grade School are called the Lower Classes (8 to 6). The next two are called the Remove Classes or the Remove (5 and 4) and the remainder are called the Upper Classes.
(f.) If it is necessary by reason either of great numbers or of differentiation of studies among boys of equal standing to sub-divide a Class, the sub-divisions are distinguished by capital letters, and called the A, B,... Divisions.
(g.) If it is desired to promote pupils half yearly instead of yearly, Classes may be divided into Upper and Lower Halves, e.g., Upper Fourth (4 1), Vernacular Lower Third (V 3 ii).
11a. They also made a number of suggestions for the amendment of the Grant Code.
NEW GRANT CODE.
12. The recommendations of the Committee in so far as they affected the Grant Schools, were, after the adoption of the Committee's report, referred to the Managers of Grant Schools, or "Corres- pondents", as they are now called. Several amendments were pro-
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