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and 11 women teachers in the Department have completed or are taking it. The practical side of their teaching receives supervision during Class hours, and this has notably been the case at the Belilios School during the past year.
B.—Normal Instruction in the Vernacular.
(i) There is a three years' course for men and another for women at the Technical Institute with an average attendance of 34 men and 55 women. 31 men and 38 women have completed this course. There are at present 20 third year students, 26 second year students and 84 first year students in attendance, more than half of whom are women.
(ii) With the exception of the Students in Training at the University all these students are improving their qualifications in their spare time. There are obvious limits to the usefulness of such efforts; but the need of more and better Vernacular teachers may with any expansion of Vernacular Education become insistent. Arrangements were therefore made in the year for the opening at the beginning of 1921 of two well equipped Normal schools for men and women respectively, which will, it is confidently hoped, turn out in 1923 and onwards between 30 and 40 trained teachers annually. The Tung Wa Committee have kindly permitted the housing of the school for men in a floor of their new Man Mo Vernacular School. The Staff had been already engaged by the end of the year, a Chinese graduate of Oxford University and a Lecturer of the Hongkong University with high reputation as a Chinese Scholar. Provision was made for 20 pupils in the first year, and 40 subsequently. A nominal fee of $1 per mensem has been fixed.
The Normal School for women will have a similar constitution. Arrangements were made to house it in the Belilios School. The fees charged will be $2 per mensem.
MEDICAL INSPECTION OF SCHOOLS.
26. The principal Grant Schools are periodically inspected.
27. The British Schools are inspected by Government doctors. The reports shew that the general health is good. The condition of the children's teeth during recent years appears as a result of these inspections and the consequent information to parents to have greatly improved.
28. The medical inspection of eyesight in Queen's College, Belilios Public School and the District Schools has at last been put on a satisfactory basis. The system is as follows:-
29. An entrance fee equalling one month's school fee is now charged to new pupils, which is credited to a fund, against which the fee for Medical Inspection by Dr. Harston—at first $7 but now $10 and the cost of spectacles ($7) is charged. In return, every pupil is entitled to free examination and spectacles if needed. As
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and 11 women teachers in the Department have completed or are taking it. The practical side of their teaching receives supervision during Class hours, and this has notably been the case at the Belilios School during the past year.
B.-Normal Instruction in the Vernacular.
(i) There is a three years' course for men and another for women at the Technical Institute with an average attendance of 34 men and 55 women. 31 men and 38 women have completed this course. There are at present 20 third year students, 26 second year students and 84 first year students in attendance, more than half of whom are women.
(ii) With the exception of the Students in Training at the University all these students are improving their qualifications in their spare time. There are obvious limits to the usefulness of such efforts; but the need of more and better Vernacular teachers may with any expansion of
expansion of Vernacular Education become insistent. Arrangements were therefore made in the year for the opening at the beginning of 1921 of two well equipped Normal schools for men and women respectively, which will, it is confidently hoped, turn out in 1923 and onwards between 30 and 40 trained teachers annually. The Tung Wa Committee have kindly permitted the housing of the school for men in a floor of their new Man Mo Vernacular School. The Staff had been already engaged by the end of the year, a Chinese graduate of Oxford University and a Lecturer of the Hongkong University with high reputation as a Chinese Scholar. Provision was made for 20 pupils in the first year, and 40 subsequently. A nominal fee of $1 per mensem has been fixed.
The Normal School for women will have a similar constitution. Arrangements were made to house it in the Belilios School. The fees charged will be $2 per mensem.
MEDICAL INSPECTION OF SCHOOLS.
26. The principal Grant Schools are periodically inspected.
27. The British Schools are inspected by Government doctors. The reports shew that the general health is good. The condition of the children's teeth during recent years appears as a result of these inspections and the consequent information to parents to have greatly improved.
28. The medical inspection of eyesight in Queen's College, Belilios Public School and the District Schools has at last been put on a satisfactory basis. The system is as follows:-
29. An entrance fee equalling one month's school fee is now charged to new pupils, which is credited to a fund, against which the fee for Medical Inspection by Dr. Harston-at first $7 but now $10 and the cost of spectacles ($7) is charged. In return, every pupil is entitled to free examination and spectacles if needed. As
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