ANNUAL REPORT OF THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
1920.
1. A change has been made this year in the arrangement of the report. Detailed information as to the Schools and the Technical Institute is supplied by the Inspectors and the Director in Annexes A, B & C. A report on the Army School which is of some public interest has been forwarded to me by the courtesy of the Military authorities and is given in Annexe D. The only schools not covered by these reports are the Police School and the two Schools which are outside the operation of the Education Ordinance. These are referred to in paragraphs 41 to 43.
2. With these exceptions the report covers all the Schools in the Colony and a number of those in the New Territories, as explained in Annexe C.
REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE.
(Tables I, II, III, IV, VII & VIII).
3. After deducting the school fees received, the total nett expenditure on education was $444,150.05 ($254,302 in 1919). The increase is mainly due to higher rates of salary. An additional sum of $20,000 was voted for Capitation Grants owing to more schools being included in the Grant Scheme. And during the year the Grants to English schools, which had not been revised since the war, were increased, absorbing $21,036 additional. $23,500 above the Estimates of 1919 was voted for and spent upon Vernacular Education.
4. School and Technical Institute fees amounting to $103,032 were collected ($103,505 in 1919). In addition $4,781 fees were remitted to free scholars ($4,185 in 1919).
STAFF.
5. I much regret to report the death on 3rd December of Mrs. Fletcher, acting Head Mistress of the Peak School. She was an admirable teacher and a very great loss to the Department and her pupils.
6. The estimated British Staff was 24 men and 26 women. At the close of the year it was 5 men and 16 women short. This shortage has been remedied to some extent by the employment of temporary women teachers, of whom several have fairly good qualifications. Others have none at all; such teachers become after a few months of some value, but they need much supervision, and they cannot take big classes unaided. The shortage was increased by the necessity of coming to the assistance of the University as explained under that heading below.
NUMBER OF PUPILS.
(Tables I to V).
7. Table V gives the number of pupils receiving an English Education as nearly 10,000, or more than 3 times what it was 20
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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
1920.
1. A change has been made this year in the arrangement of the report. Detailed information as to the Schools and the Technical Institute is supplied by the Inspectors and the Director in An- nexes A, B & C. A report on the Army School which is of some public interest has been forwarded to me by the courtesy of the Military authorities and is given in Annexe D. The only schools not covered by these reports are the Police School and the two Schools which are outside the operation of the Education Ordinance. These are referred to in paragraphs 41 to 43.
2. With these exceptions the report covers all the Schools in the Colony and a number of those in the New Territories, as explained in Annexe C.
REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE.
(Tables I, II, III, IV, VII & VIII).
3. After deducting the school fees received, the total nett expenditure on education was $444,150.05 ($254,302 in 1919). The increase is mainly due to higher rates of salary. An additional sum of $20,000 was voted for Capitation Grants owing to more schools being included in the Grant Scheme. And during the year the Grants to English schools, which had not been revised since the war, were increased, absorbing $21,036 additional. $23,500. above the Estimates of 1919 was voted for and spent upon Vernacular Education.
4. School and Technical Institute fees amounting to $103,032 were collected ($103,505 in 1919). In addition $4.781 fees were remitted to free scholars ($4,185 in 1919).
STAFF.
5. I much regret to report the death on 3rd December of Mrs. Fletcher, acting Head Mistress of the Peak School. She was an admirable teacher and a very great loss to the Department and her pupils.
6. The estimated British Staff was 24 men and 26 women. At the close of the year it was 5 men and 16 women short. This shortage has been remedied to some extent by the employment of temporary women teachers, of whom several hrave fairly good qualifications. Others have none at all such teachers become after a few months of some value, but they need much supervision, and they can not take big Classes unaided. The shortage was increased by the necessity of coming to the assistance of the University as explained under that heading below.
NUMBER OF PUPILS.
(Tables I to V).
7. Table V gives the number of pupils receiving an English Education as nearly 10,000, or more than 3 times what it was 20
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