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28. There are now 429 private Vernacular Schools, three-quarters of which may be considered to be efficient or fairly so. In these schools there are over 21,000 pupils. 152 of them, with 8,486 pupils, receive subsidies amounting to $52,907 or about $341 a school and $6.23 a head.
29. It is noteworthy that "the number of pupils who continue beyond the third year is 7% in Subsidised and 16% in non-Subsidised Schools", the explanation being that nearly half the Subsidised Schools are free schools for the poor. The inference is that they are attended by the class for which they are designed, the children being compelled to leave school and find work early.
30. Further details as to free places in the English Schools for pupils from the Vernacular Schools, of a new Syllabus and of 2 Industrial Schools, are given by the Inspector of Vernacular Schools in his report, Annexe C. The work of his Sub-Department is being performed in a highly satisfactory manner, and the improvement in these Schools is steady.
RURAL DISTRICTS.
31. Mr. Y. P. Law was put in sole charge of these Districts at the beginning of the year.
32. About one half of the 200 Schools are subsidised. Of an enrolment of over 4,000 less than 300 are girls. "It is estimated that 90 per cent of the peasants cannot read or write a simple letter."
33. I recently visited a school which was threatened with a loss of Subsidy. It was immensely superior to the best that could be found in pre-inspection days. The improvement in the Rural Schools as a whole is striking.
NORMAL SCHOOLS.
34. The following table gives the numbers in attendance at the various Normal Classes. They are all doing very valuable work.
Technical Institute, 1921 1922 Men: English, 29 27 Women: 15 20 Men: Vernacular, 64 41 Women: 77 94 Man Mo Temple: Men, Vernacular, 19 35 Belilios School: Women, Vernacular, 19 19 Total 233 23607
28. There are now 429 private Vernacular Schools, three-quarters of which may be considered to be efficient or fairly so. In these schools there are over 21,000 pupils. 152 of them, with 8,486 pupils, receive subsidies amounting to $52,907 or about $341 a a school and $6.23 a head.
29. It is noteworthy that "the number of pupils who continue. beyond the third year is 7% in Subsidised and 16% in non- Subsidised Schools", the explanation being that nearly half the Subsidised Schools are free schools for the poor. The inference is that they are attended by the Class for which they are designed, the children being compelled to leave school and find work early.
30. Further details as to free places in the English Schools for pupils from the Vernacular Schools, of a new Syllabus and of 2 Industrial Schools, are given by the Inspector of Vernacular Schools in his report, Annexe C. The work of his Sub-Depart- ment is being performed in a highly satisfactory manner, and the improvement in these Schools is steady.
RURAL DISTRICTS.
31. Mr. Y. P. Law was put in sole charge of these Districts at the beginning of the year.
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32. About one half of the 200 Schools are subsidised. of an enrolment of over 4,000 less than 300 are girls. "It is estimated that 90 per cent of the peasants cannot read or write a simple letter."
33. I recently visited a school which was threatened with a loss of Subsidy. It was immensely superior to the best that could be found in pre-inspection days. The improvement in the Rural Schools as a whole is striking.
NORMAL SCHOOLS.
34. The following table gives the numbers in attendance at the various Normal Classes. They are all doing very valuable work.
Technical Institute,
1921. 1922,
Men: English,
29
27
Women:
15
20
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Men: Vernacular,.
64
41
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99
Women:
$7
94
55
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Man Mo Temple: Men, Vernacular,
19
35
,
Belilios School: Women, Vernacular,
19
19
233
236
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